ABOUT 10 Nigerian citizens in the UK waiting for evacuation back home will have to wait for at least a fortnight now before they can leave after they tested positive for coronavirus and will now need to be placed in isolation.

GOVERNORS of Nigeria's 19 northern states have warned President Muhammadu Buhari against introducing a lockdown across the region in response to the coronavirus pandemic saying that it cannot be sustained economically and will come at too high a cost.

NIGERIA'S diaspora community in the UK has just suffered another major loss after Victor Ikwuemesi the founder and chief executive of Sosoliso Airlines became the latest victim of the coronavirus pandemic.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) The government’s Covid-19 committee has put together a special emergency pack that includes 5kg of rice, gari and beans each, as well as cooking oil, tomatoes, two tubers of yam, tinned milk, water, eggs and bread. This will be distributed across all 774 local government areas immediately

TRAGEDY has struck in the US state of California after a 15-year old girl hanged herself because she was traumatised by the stay-at-home order issued by the authorities as part of measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

FOREIGN minister Geoffrey Onyeama has warned Nigerians living abroad that if they want to return to the country on account of the global coronavirus pandemic it will not be free of charge and they will have to pay for the privilege.

MELINDA Gates has warned that the bodies of African cities will soon be littered with the corpses of coronavirus victims soon unless governments across the continent take urgent action to combat the spread of the pandemic.

BRITAIN has asked China to refund the money it paid for 3.5m coronavirus test kits it ordered last month after it emerged that none of them passed accuracy checks after they were delivered into the UK.

MEMBERS of the University of Ilorin Alumni association in the UK have issued a statement debunking the story that their member Dele Jalade who recently passed away died from the dreaded coronavirus pandemic.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) I am not surprised at the contents of these two maps. The malaria and Covid-19 maps are totally converse. It appears that the two ailments are actually avoiding each other

(2) One is a tropical disease, while the other is a temperate virus. There is very little overlap between them

(3) However, from what we know so far, anti-malaria drugs like Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have enjoyed some success against coronavirus