US president says he will sign an order suspending immigration to protect jobs in the country as the coronavirus spreads. "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!" Trump tweeted. The suspension of all immigration would serve as an extension on the travel restrictions the Trump administration has already declared on some countries in Europe, China, Canada, Mexico, Iran and Nigeria.

                                Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has said that Africa should be paid compensation from China, following China's failure to    contain the spread of the virus. She said the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the conditions of the Africans.  She added that the continent’s economic gains had been spoilt since the global crisis.  The former Vice President for the Africa Region at the World Bank noted that although there were calls for voluntary international aid to support the continent, “this is far from the best solution.” According to her, it is time to make offending rich countries pay the poor ones a global risk burden tax for delaying their rise out of poverty. She said, “Today, Africa is home to more than 70 per cent of the world’s poorest people, with more than 400 million living below the poverty line. It is no surprise that it is disproportionately vulnerable to this crisis. It should not suf

                                                      Image Courtesy- Pixabay Researchers admit a medical examiner in Thailand is the first person to die from the coronavirus after contracting it from a corpse according to  the  Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine study reported Sunday .  “This is the first report on COVID-19 infection and death among medical personnel in a Forensic Medicine unit,” “There is low chance of forensic medicine professionals coming into contact with infected patients. But they can have contact with biological samples and corpses.” “At present, there is no data on the exact number of COVID-19 contaminated corpses since it is not a routine practice to examine for COVID-19 in dead bodies in Thailand,” researchers wrote. Researchers said forensic and medical professionals should be wearing personal protective device like masks and gloves when they come in contact with a patient infected with the coronavirus.

The Federal Road Safety Corps FRSC, has ordered immediate punishment  on patrol team involved in trending video with a motorist in Abuja, Nigeria. The attention of the Federal Road Safety Corps has been adequately drawn to a video currently dominating the social media sphere about a motorist who had an encounter with FRSC Personnel in the course of carrying out the ongoing enforcement of Presidential/National directive on ‘ Stay At Home’. After a careful study and analysis of the video and what transpired in it, the Corps wishes to inform the public that the following proactive measures have been taken; 1 That the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has ordered the immediate withdrawal of the entire FRSC Team involved in the unprofessional and uncivil act. 2 That the action of the Officers involved in that episode is completely contrary to the Core Values and Operational Ethics of the Corps and the Corps frowns at it . 3 That the Corps Marshal has directed that the entire team be

                   Inspector Taloju Martins The Police officer attached to Ago Palace Way Division in Lagos seen in a viral video counting his loot from extortion has been arrested by the Command. Inspector Taloju Martins’ escapade was posted on the internet where he was seen counting money alleged to be a bribe he collected from one of those he arrested illegally.  The money was a ‘ransom’ paid by an unidentified motorist to free his vehicle. The motorist had allegedly violated the lockdown order of the government to curb the  transmission of coronavirus in the state. The motorist, whose car was seized by the police, was told to pay N50,000 but he eventually paid N40,000. T he incident happened on Friday, April 10 at Ago Palace Road Okota, Lagos State Nigeria. Confirming the incident, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said that the culprit has been arrested  that the inspector would be subjected to disciplinary proceedings in accordance with th

                              Image Courtesy- Pixabay Coronavirus has killed 20,460 people in the United States, just higher than number of deaths in Italy.  Since New York's first recorded death on March 14, more than 6,500 of its people have died of COVID-19 and more victims have died in New York than in any country aside France, Spain and Italy. Infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday morning (April 10) that in about a week an antibody test would become available to show who has already been infected with the novel coronavirus, The  New York Times reported. As the virus’s spread started to increase in the United States, a team at the University of Washington in Seattle used the daily death rates in a model to speculate the number of beds and ventilators that US hospitals would need. “Our modeling approach is based off the deaths — that is the core part that tells us about the epidemic,” says Theo Vos, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Health Met

                              Image Courtsey - Reuters Dro ne pictures show bodies being buried on New York's Hart Island . New York officials say that Hart Island, which for about 150 years has been used as funerary grounds for those who died unclaimed, will now also be used for unclaimed coronavirus victims. New York City authorities say only bodies that haven’t been claimed after a couple of weeks will be buried – and they were doing so to help open up space in morgues for more dead people. Generally, bodies are kept in the morgue for about two months before being buried, but now the city will move unclaimed bodies to Hart Island after two weeks.