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COVID-19 Should Be An Alarm Call For Reshaping Of Nigeria’s Health Structure – Oyemade
The Senior Pastor of the Covenant Christian Centre, Poju Oyemade, has said that the COVID-19 outbreak should be a an alarm call for the reshaping of Nigeria’s healthcare structure.
He disclosed this on Saturday during the Church’s annual Worker’s Day programme, The Platform.
This year’s edition, nevertheless, concentrated on Nigeria’s fight against the COVID-19, until now.
While conveying his message, Pastor Oyemade recollect how years ago, the University College Hospital, Ibadan, where his parents both worked as doctors, was categorized among the 10 best hospitals in the commonwealth nations.
He said this on Saturday during the Church’s annual Worker’s Day programme, The Platform.
This year’s edition, however, focussed on Nigeria’s battle against the COVID-19, so far.
But as said by him, the present healthcare system is now nothing to be proud of.
He, nonetheless, says the current pandemic should be an alarm call for the government to reshape sustainable infrastructure.
“My parents are both medical doctors and I was born while they were living on the premises of the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
“The UCH, then, was regarded as one of the best 10 hospitals in the commonwealth nations, which included hospitals in England, Whales, Scotland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand,” Oyemade said.
Source___Channels TV
Nigeria Confirms 204 Cases Of Corona Virus in One Day, Toll of Infections Now 1,932
Nigeria has confirmed 204 new cases of the novel Covid-19, bringing the country’s infections toll to 1,932.
As seen by the tweet of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday, of the new infections, 80 are in Kano, 45 are in Lagos, while 12 are in Gombe.
Thursday’s new cases are the highest confirmed in a day in Nigeria since the NCDC started compiling the virus data in February.
The toll of deaths from the virus also rose to 58 while 319 have now recovered.
Source___Channels TV
Australian PM says no evidence coronavirus originated in China laboratory, urges inquiry
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has irritated Beijing by cross-questioning for a global investigation into the coronavirus outbreak, said he had no proof to propose the disease emanated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was sure the coronavirus may have emanated in a Chinese virology lab, but downturn to describe the proof he said he had seen.
Morrison said on Friday that Australia had no clue to support that theory, and said the uncertainty supported his push for an inquiry to understand how the pandemic started and then spread rapidly around the world.
“What we have before us doesn’t suggest that that is the likely source,” Morrison told a news conference in Canberra when asked about Trump’s comments.
“There’s nothing we have that would indicate that was the likely source, though you can’t rule anything out in these environments,” he said.
“We know it started in China, we know it started in Wuhan, the most likely scenario that has been canvassed relates to wildlife wet markets, but that’s a matter that would have to be thoroughly assessed.”
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), based in the city where the disease was first spotted, has refused suggestions the coronavirus came from its laboratory.
Most scientists now say the virus emanated in wildlife, with bats and pangolins identified as possible host species.
Relations between Australia and China have been tension since the government began canvassing support in mid-April for an international inquiry into the pandemic.
Source___World News
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