CRIMINALS have ransacked a government warehouse in Yenagoa and carted away bags of garri being stored by the Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency (Sema) that was to be distributed to members of the public as part of the Covid-19 relief effort.

CHINESE billionaire Jack Ma has revealed that he will making a second donation of medical equipment and drugs to Nigeria and 53 other African nations to help them combat the menace of the global coronavirus pandemic.

AMERICAN officials have warned its citizens in Nigeria currently scrambling to leave for the US against the move saying that hospitals back home are overwhelmed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak.

DOCTORS bodies the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have expressed opposition to plans to get a team of Chinese medical experts to visit the country.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Covid-19 does not have a cure yet, so if you are having breathing difficulties, what the medics do is they put you on a ventilator until your lungs clear. It is thus no surprise why the global demand for ventilators has soared

INDIA has joined the list of nations placing restrictions on the export of medical equipment and pharmaceuticals by banning all exports of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine which President Donald Trump recently touted as a possible cure for coronavirus.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) India
(2) Brazil
(3) Indonesia
(4) Pakistan
(5) Nigeria
(6) Vietnam
(7) Philippines
(8) South Africa
(9) Egypt
(10) Mexico

ONDO State has reacted to the emergence of its first case of Covid-19 with the establishment of a six-man Ondo State Coronavirus Response Fund in which Governor Rotimi Akeredolu's son serves as the secretary.

MUSLIM  Rights Concern (Muric) has lashed out at rival body Christian Rights Agenda (CRA) for criticising Islamic organisations in Nigeria for not doing enough to assist the population in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

UNITED Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has commended Nigeria's for the way the country has reacted to the coronavirus pandemic saying she is one developing nation that has shown a remarkable capacity to respond to the crisis.