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UPDATE: First Coronavirus Case In Ondo Is Military Officer Who Returned From India

Following the announcement of the primary Coronavirus case in Ondo State, palpable concern has continued to grip residents of the town.

SaharaReporters gathered that the primary confirmed case is a navy officer, who just lately returned to Nigeria from India.

A supply informed our correspondent that the state obtained the results of the take a look at after some samples had been despatched to a laboratory in Osun State.

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“We suspected two circumstances on Wednesday. One from Ile Oluji in Okeigbo whereas the second, a navy officer on the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army Barracks in Akure.

“Immediately, we sent the two samples for test in Ede, Osun State, and got the result of the second person today which tested positive,” he mentioned.

Confirming the case in a put up on Twitter, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu pleaded for calm within the state, including that the person had been moved to an isolation centre.

He mentioned, “Ondo State #COVIDー19 index case replace: The index case is a navy officer who was a returnee from India.

“He has been in isolation since he returned and has been monitored by the medical workforce of the navy and our workforce all through this era.

“Upon showing some symptoms, his samples were taken and the diagnosis confirmed by @NCDCgov at their lab in Ede.”

Ondo State #COVIDã¼19 Index Case Update:
The index case is a navy officer who was a returnee from India. He has been in isolation since he returned and has been monitored by the medical workforce of the Military and our state workforce all through this era.

— Arakunrin Akeredolu (@RotimiAkeredolu) April 3, 2020

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April 4, 2020
No Ramadan Bazaar in Sabah this year: State Secretary

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah authorities in principal will not be permitting Ramadan bazaar all through the state this yr in the trouble to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.

State Secretary Datuk Safar Untong mentioned the ruling was in line with the federal government’s resolution to ban the ‘tamu’ and farmer’s market.

“The state government will make an official announcement (regarding this matter) including the standard operating procedure (SOP), among others, involving every activity to be carried out in the state,” he informed reporters right here, at this time.

Safar mentioned the state authorities was now in the method of finalising the SOP, together with the operation hours of each grocery store in the state, to make sure the outbreak can be completely contained.

“If previously the SOP and the operation hours were not standardised, now we want to standardise them, for example, in supermarkets; every worker and shopper must wear face masks and use the sanitiser,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile, Safar mentioned the Public Works Department (PWD) has been ordered to restore or exchange damaged primary requirements in each quarantine centre in the state.

“Any quarantine centre in Sabah that needs repairs, we will fix them using the state’s government allocation, although the buildings are owned by the Federal government. I am sure PWD is now in process of repairing (broken basic needs in quarantine centres),” he mentioned, in response to a viraled video on social media, which confirmed unsatisfactory situation at a quarantine facility in the state.

A complete of 28 quarantine centres had been established in Sabah to isolate people suspected to be constructive Covid-19 and susceptible to infecting others.

Commenting on quarantine lodging in three-star motels, Safar mentioned Sabah in the intervening time had been utilizing two three-star motels to deal with people who returned from overseas and wanted to bear the 14-day quarantine.

“However the costs will be borne by those involved,” he mentioned, including that the federal government’s quarantine centres had been freed from cost and had meals served. — Bernama

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April 3, 2020
Covid-19: MOH monitors 3,000 yet-to-be-screened tabligh followers

PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Health (MOH) continues to be monitoring about 3,000 tabligh (Islamic motion) worshippers who had attended a rally on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix) mentioned among the many explanation why the three,000 individuals had not been screened have been that those that had gone overseas had not returned since attending the gathering.

“Maybe, some have nonetheless not returned, some might have gone overseas, for instance to Sulawesi and India. They left for 40 days and haven’t returned.

“We are nonetheless monitoring and we now have the information. It is hoped that once they return they are going to be screened and quarantined for 14 days,“ he instructed a Covid-19 each day media convention, right here in the present day.

Noor Hisham mentioned 19,032 contributors of the gathering on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque had been screened to date with 15,970 samples taken.

‘’There are 1,465 constructive instances among the many Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque worshippers, There are 10,213 adverse instances and 4,292 pending instances. About 3,000 individuals have but to be screened,’’ he mentioned.

Noor Hisham mentioned Selangor recorded a excessive variety of instances and the sources have been the tahfiz and madrasah (Islamic faculties) some whom had attended the tabligh gathering on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque.

He mentioned one of many explanation why Selangor had the best constructive instances was as a result of 50% of the instances have been linked to the worshippers who had gathered on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque, and now it had unfold to the Islamic faculties.

‘’So, now we see Hulu Langat has 300 constructive instances so far. There are about 600 instances in Selangor and half of the instances got here from Hulu Langat,’’ he mentioned.

The variety of instances in Hulu Langat had gone as much as 300 instances from 287 instances beforehand. There are 90 instances in Kampung Sungai Lui together with 25 instances that are linked to the worshippers on the Sri Petaling Jamek Mosque and shut contacts (65 instances).

As of in the present day, Noor Hisham mentioned 18 constructive Covid-19 instances have been detected on the One City Plaza Tower.

As such, he really useful a group enforcement in each housing space to make sure localised cleanliness to verify the unfold of Covid-19.

“We can improve it additional and alternatively we’re wanting intently at hotspot areas. If there is a rise of 10, 20 and even 40 instances inside a day, that could be a signal for us to return in and improve the Movement Control Order (MCO) in that space,’’ he mentioned. — Bernama

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April 3, 2020
IPA, WHO and UNICEF launch Read the World on International Children’s Book Day to support children and young people in isolation

Geronimo Stilton creator to kickstart unique children’s e-book studying initiative amid COVID-19 pandemic

Much-loved children’s authors are becoming a member of an initiative to learn extracts of their books to tens of millions of children and young people at the moment dwelling in isolation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read the World is a collaboration between the International Publishers Association (IPA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. It kicks off right now, on International Children’s Book Day, at 15.00 GMT/17.00 CET with Italian creator Elisabetta Dami, creator of the fashionable character Geronimo Stilton.

“These are uncharted waters for us all, and the psycho-social effects of prolonged isolation and social distancing are yet to be seen and understood,” mentioned IPA President Hugo Setzer. “All of us should take particular care of our mental health at the moment, and especially that of young minds. The IPA wanted to do something positive to bring children and their favourite writers closer, to stimulate their interest in books and to create a carefree moment for families to share during this difficult period of confinement.”

“Children’s lives and routines have been turned upside down in just a few short weeks,” mentioned UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. “Even when the outside world is out of bounds for now, reading can remind children and young people that the transportive power of books is unlimited.”

“WHO is committed to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic on all fronts, especially when it comes to protecting young people,” mentioned WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “We understand the fear and anxieties many feel and know how the joy of reading can stimulate young minds, ease tensions and provide hope.”

Elisabetta Dami will learn on her private Instagram account in English from 15.00-15.30 GMT 17.00-17.30 CET. Dami, whose books have offered greater than 180 million copies round the world and are printed in 50 completely different languages, will even reply to feedback and questions by way of the platform.

Several different famous children’s authors have agreed to be a part of the Read the World initiative, particulars of which will likely be out there quickly at https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/read-the-world

About IPA

The IPA is the world’s largest federation of publishers associations. Established in 1896, it is an business physique with a human rights mandate, whose mission is to promote and shield publishing and elevate consciousness of publishing as a drive for financial, cultural and social improvement. Working in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and different supranational our bodies, the IPA champions the pursuits of e-book and journal publishing at nationwide and supranational stage. Internationally, the IPA actively opposes censorship and promotes copyright, freedom to publish (together with by the IPA Prix Voltaire), and literacy.

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About UNICEF

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to attain the world’s most deprived children. Across greater than 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, to construct a greater world for everybody.

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About WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ specialised company for well being. It is an inter-governmental group and works in collaboration with its Member States normally by the Ministries of Health. The World Health Organization is accountable for offering management on world well being issues, shaping the well being analysis agenda, setting norms and requirements, articulating evidence-based coverage choices, offering technical support to international locations and monitoring and assessing well being tendencies. Learn extra at www.who.int.

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April 3, 2020
Coronavirus: Akwa Ibom Declares 14-day Lockdown

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has introduced a 14-day lockdown within the state to stop the unfold of Coronavirus.

This is coming after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed 5 circumstances within the state.

Though the federal government had initially denied the end result by the NCDC and mentioned one other check can be performed, the governor mentioned the lockdown was to allow a radical means of contact tracing to establish these, who might have been uncovered to the 5 confirmed victims.

In a statewide broadcast, Governor Emmanuel mentioned the confirmed circumstances are largely well being professionals, who gad contact with a foreigner that later examined optimistic for the virus.

The governor mentioned there can be restriction of individuals and vehicular motion besides of these finishing up important duties.

He mentioned, “I’m hereby asserting a whole cessation of motion within the state prolonged to interval of 14 days.

“There shall be no motion of individuals besides these on important duties, who should carry a correct technique of identification.

“As I converse, the confirmed circumstances who’re largely healthcare professionals are in good well being and have thus far offered no signs.

“However, they’ve been moved to the isolation centres for correct administration and the method of contact tracing has begun.

“All enterprise premises, markets, retailers, motor parks and places of work should stay closed throughout this era.

“The solely exception shall be pharmacies and grocery retailers. All occasions of any nature are prohibited throughout this era.

“Relevant safety businesses have been briefed and they’ll guarantee strict compliance with this directive.”

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April 3, 2020
Africa Can’t Run Away From Coronavirus, Medical Expert Says

A medical professional, Abu Clement Okolo, has stated that Africa can’t run away from Coronavirus, therefore the necessity to embrace the rules given by the World Health Organisation.

Clement, who spoke to SaharaReporters on the preparedness of Nigeria and Africa as a complete, stated it’s unimaginable to foretell the potential turnout of occasions in Africa as many international locations on the continent usually are not ready for the pandemic.

He additionally expressed fear about medical consultants contracting the illness.

Last week, the Provost and Deputy Provost of University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Ezekiel Olapade-Olaopa and Obafunke Denloye each examined constructive for the virus.

On the identical day, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Jesse A. Otegbayo, additionally examined constructive for the virus.

Speaking on the worldwide unfold of the virus that has now infested over a million individuals worldwide, Clement stated happenings in European nations solely go to indicate how unprepared Africa is.

He stated, “Corona shouldn’t be one thing we will run away from. Corona is actual. We, as scientists, know we aren’t ready in Africa for what is occurring.

“What all people must do is to brace up, heed the social distancing, keep at dwelling. Nobody can say the flip of the occasion within the coming days.

“If it’s beginning with the individuals on the prime of the medical group which is one of the best within the Nigerian setting, you possibly can think about what might occur.

“My advice to everyone should abide by the WHO instructions—stay home. Believe in God and Make peace with God.”

Nigeria has recorded 174 confirmed instances to date and two recorded deaths.

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April 3, 2020
Covid-19: List of fake news as of 7pm today

KUALA LUMPUR: The following are the replies made by the related businesses to the Quick Response Team of the Communications and Multimedia Ministry (KKMM) on fake news that went viral on social media as of 7pm today.

>> The National Security Council (MKN) has denied claims a 3rd section of the Movement Control Order (MCO) can be carried out from April 15 to May 15, 2020.

>> The MKN has additionally denied allegations that summonses can be issued, with out discretion used, by the authorities through the MCO interval, such RM300 for travelling in a automobile with multiple individual, RM200 for not sporting a face masks and RM150 for leaving residence after 10 pm.

>> The Hulu Langat District Health Office has denied that it had despatched a brief messaging service (SMS) textual content to inform {that a} supervisor at Sungai Ramal Shell station had examined constructive for Covid-19. — Bernama

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April 2, 2020
Four zones for classification of Covid-19 areas

KUALA LUMPUR: The areas of Covid-19 have been categorised into 4 zones primarily based on the quantity of instances in an space by the Ministry of Health (MOH).

National Security Council (MKN) in its response to the often requested query (FAQ) on the second part of the Movement Control Order (MCO 2) mentioned that the crimson zone refers to areas with greater than 40 constructive instances, whereas the orange zone is for areas with 21 to 40 constructive instances.

The yellow zone refers to areas with one to 20 constructive instances and the inexperienced zone is with none constructive case.

“The Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) was carried out at sure areas or localities within the crimson zone on the recommendation of the MOH when there’s a sudden unfold of the virus in that locality,“ mentioned MKN.

MKN famous that throughout the MCO 2 interval beginning yesterday till April 14, solely 10 important sectors had been allowed to function, together with meals companies, water, vitality, communications and web in addition to safety and defence.

Solid waste administration, public cleaning and sewerage; healthcare and medical together with dietary complement; banking and finance; e-commerce and logistics are additionally confined to important companies. — Bernama

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April 2, 2020
Remdesivir to be used in treatment of Covid-19: Health DG

PUTRAJAYA: A brand new antiviral drug, Remdesivir, will be launched to deal with Covid-19 sufferers in the nation, stated Health Director-General Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix).

He stated the Ministry of Health (MOH) has acquired a number of purposes to convey in the drugs.

“There have been purposes to convey in the Remdesivir drug and now we have accepted one or two purposes. Insya Allah, we’ll introduce this new drug to deal with Covid-19 sufferers,“ he stated at a day by day media convention on Covid-19 right here at present.

Last March 28, Dr Noor Hisham was reported to have stated that the prevailing medication Clorokuin, Hydroxychloroquine and mixture of Lopinavir / Ritonavir which are used to deal with different ailments might be used in the treatment of Covid-19.

Asked if the quantity of Covid-19 assessments carried out to date was sufficient, he stated MOH had met the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) benchmark.

He stated primarily based on the share of 7.2% Covid-19 constructive circumstances from all samples taken, it’s under the 10% set by the World Health Organisation (WHO), therefore exhibiting that the nation has been performing sufficient assessments.

“We have taken 43,462 samples and the (quantity of) constructive circumstances are 3,116, which means the speed of our constructive circumstances is 7.2%,,“ he added.

Prior to this, medical specialists claimed that Malaysia remains to be behind in conducting the assessments for Covid-19, regardless of the rise in constructive circumstances two weeks in the past.

Meanwhile, Noor Hisham stated the Covid-19 mortality fee in Malaysia, which is at 1.6 %, is taken into account nonetheless low, in contrast with the worldwide loss of life fee of round 4.5%.

On the scarcity of private protecting tools (PPE), he stated, the issue has been resolved, however the concern now could be to ship the provides to hospitals and clinics concerned in the treatment of Covid-19.

However, he stated, efforts had been being made to resolve the matter.

“We hope inside this week the difficulty of distribution will be settled, now we have greater than 50,000 donated masks and PPE, in addition to half 1,000,000 masks from China for instance.

“There is rather a lot of donations coming in and the difficulty now could be we try our greatest to handle the logistic to ship to Sabah and Sarawak for instance,“ he added. — Bernama

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April 2, 2020
‘Warn and Sweep’ police teams tasked to nab MCO offenders in PJ

PETALING JAYA: To get cracking on those that proceed to defy the second section of the motion management order (MCO), a heavy-duty job power known as “Warn and Sweep” has commenced its patrolling.

The warn and sweep crew will goal areas recognized as being of low compliance of the MCO.

Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Nik Ezanee who revealed this tonight stated the recognized areas are each residential and business areas.

He stated the particular crew contains of a big workforce which is split to two teams. “The “warn” crew contains a patrol automobile, a motorbike patrol unit and a Black Maria police truck.

The “sweep” crew is made up of personnel tasked to perform arrests. The “warn” crew will subject warnings on loud audio system with beacon lights ordering those that are outside to adjust to the MCO and return indoors.

Then, the “sweep” crew will take over and make arrests on those that stay defiant. We have acquired very constructive outcomes after initiating this on Wednesday evening at Taman Medan and Taman Datuk Harun right here. The compliance price rose to 95% and we’ll proceed to perform this new operation.” he stated.

Nik Ezanee stated PJ police have additionally initiated “point duty” the place police and troopers will perform foot patrols at areas recognized as Covid-19 crimson zones.

He stated this was to guarantee residents do no loiter outside.

Petaling Jaya is recognized as the highest most space in the nation affected by the outbreak with the best variety of Covid-19 constructive sufferers.

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