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Commends state’s health workers Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, has urged residents in the state to take the opportunity provided by the state government for screening and testing to check the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Okiye is among the seven patients who have fully recovered after testing negative twice for the virus. He …

Edo State Government is set to commence mobile COVID-19 screenings and active case search activities across the 12 wards in Oredo Local Government Area (LGA), as part of strategies to check the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, who disclosed this to journalists in Benin City, said the exercise will complement screening activities already …

Warrant Officer Lawal Mato, one of the bodyguards of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.), died on Tuesday after struggling with diabetes for three years. Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said Mato had been working with him for many years before he won the 2015 election. The President described …

Journalists, health workers, first responders and other essential workers are granted permission to move within the state as long as they are able to properly identify themselves during the state-wide dusk-to-dawn curfew, which commenced on Monday, April 20, 2020, Edo State Government clarified on Tuesday.  In a statement, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, …

BEVERLY, MA —For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic started, the state Department of Public Health is releasing the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases at Massachusetts nursing homes, rest homes and skilled nursing facilities. In Massachusetts, patients and staff at nursing homes make up about 16 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases and 52 percent of coronavirus-related deaths. The …

MASSACHUSETTS — The new coronavirus has preyed on the most vulnerable members of the population, attacking older residents in particular and ravaging places like elderly facilities with deadly speed. Staff and residents at long-term care facilities account for more than half the deaths in Massachusetts, according to new state date. The average age of people who have died of COVID-19 …

The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort has begun admitting patients from hospitals in New Jersey in an effort to expand its support of the nation’s COVID-19 response efforts. New Jersey state hospitals coordinated with Comfort doctors to ensure patients could be effectively transferred across state lines and aboard the ship to receive care. “Every one of those that …

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, says reports circulating online that he is in an Intensive Care Unit is false. The governor, who announced on March 28 that he tested positive for coronavirus, has since been in isolation receiving treatment. Reacting to the reports, El-Rufai said on Monday evening that he took some hours out of isolation today to attend a …

…govt insists on prompt detection to curb spread Edo State Government has announced the discharge of the seventh coronavirus (COVID-19) patient, who has tested negative twice for the virus and cleared from one of the state’s isolation centres. The State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the seventh discharged patient is the index …

…Procures 3 PCR machines, 28 ventilators, readies 300-bed capacity isolation facilities, others Edo State Government has provided life insurance and other special allowances for healthcare workers handling coronavirus (COVID-19) response in the state, as motivation to work on the frontlines in the fight against the pandemic. Governor Godwin Obaseki, who disclosed this in a broadcast, said the state is making …