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10 Takeaway from Buhari’s second speech on Covid-19

By The Insight Team April 14, 2020 266 0

 92% of all identified contacts with Covid-19 positive persons has been identified. Testing capacity doubled – 1,500 tests could be conducted daily 7,000 health care workers trained in ‘infection prevention and control’ Health care workers across all the treatment centers have been provided with the personal protective equipment NCDC team deployed in 19 out of […]Continue Reading

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[Intelligence] Covid-19 Expenditure and 2020 Health Budget

By The Insight Team April 11, 2020 270 0

Nigeria’s federal and state governments have been on a spending spree to frustrate the spread of coronavirus. Imperative as the spending is, it has raised concerns about the fate of the 2020 health budget. With several health challenges like poor primary healthcare delivery, high maternal mortality rate, poor immunization of children, deaths due to typhoid […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 6: Fuel price jerked up as more than 500 Africans die

By The Insight Team April 8, 2020 306 Post a comment

By Theophilus Abbah As I started my car engine this evening to ride out of boredom into the locked down world, I noticed that my fuel had drained. The red sign on the gauge jeered at him as if to say it would certainly draw some cash from my drained pocket. Even if I had […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s unhealthy healthcare in the eye of Coronavirus

By The Insight Team April 4, 2020 259 0

By Runcie C.W. Chidebe Coronavirus (COVID-19) is here to teach us a lesson; I hope we learn. Nigeria’s healthcare is unhealthy. But instead of fixing it our rulers have been busy flying up and down to benefit from other country’s productive health system. With Coronavirus, reality is upon us. No more running overseas for medical […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Today’s Report

By The Insight Team April 3, 2020 230 0

The charts below show the current state of Covid-19 in Nigeria. Death is still low, but there are concerns about its spread in the South-West, especially. There are fewer cases in the North. But this does not give a clear idea of the situation there, because fewer tests have been conducted in that part of […]Continue Reading

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[My Covid-19 Diary] Day 3 – Breakfast without bread in a blackout

By The Insight Team April 3, 2020 245 0

By Theophilus Abbah Blanket blackout, darkness, sweats and fatigue ruled and ruined the night before Tuesday, March 31, when life would grind to a halt and the curse, we, Abuja residents, feared most would be unleashed to drench and drown us. Blackout, because electricity supply had become so unreliable that both government and the governed […]Continue Reading

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10 Main Points in Buhari’s Covid-19 Speech

By The Insight Team March 30, 2020 280 0

Whole instrument of government mobilized to tackle pandemic Covid-19 has no cure to date Three preventive measures are (i) regular hygiene (ii) sanitary practice (iii) social distancing N15 billion set aside as response Citizens in Lagos, FCT and Ogun should stay at home Air travels suspended Relief materials for satellite towns in Lagos and Abuja […]Continue Reading

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Benue ‘strange’ illness: No test results after 2 months; death toll now 16

By The Insight Team March 24, 2020 287 0

  ‘Bacteria count in the water was high’ I n January, this year, the Oye-Obi rural community of Igede-speaking natives in Obi Local Government Area of Benue State, came under surveillance by health officials after an ‘unknown ailment’ reportedly caused the deaths in the area. At least, 16 people have been reported dead but villagers […]Continue Reading