Health

Beverage giant, Coca-Cola Foundation has provided over 400,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to Nigerian health workers on the frontline of COVID-19 management in the country. Briefly the public, Nigeria Red Cross Society in partnership with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in a tweet noted that the procurement was crucial to give adequate protection to frontline workers, considering the risks they are exposed to. The PPEs, according to Coca- Cola, is to support the intervention efforts of the Nigerian Government and other key stakeholders to fight the COVID 19 pandemic. The PPEs comprise N95 respirators, surgical…

  Former Malawian President, Dr. Joyce Hilda Banda has disclosed that women and girls are more vulnerable to the devastating of effects of the novel COVID-19 pandemic on the continent of Africa as the pandemic has within the last three months subjected young girls in a district in Malawi to early and unwanted pregnancy and others untold hardship. The educator and grassroots women’s activist who presided over the affairs of Malawi from May 2009 to April 2012 made the shocking revelation while speaking at the Osasu Show Symposium on the devastating impact of COVID -19 on the continent of Africa,…

Jade Townsend has said she is worried she will "never get back to my normal self" months after catching coronavirus. Jade Townsend, 22, was active and sociable before spending just one night in hospital after contracting Covid-19. But she said she can no longer work and suffers chronic fatigue, fevers, nausea and a fluctuating fast heart rate. Researchers studying long-term effects of the virus said they hoped to prevent a "cycle of illness where the symptoms continue". Many coronavirus patients have reported debilitating symptoms continuing months after falling ill, which can include breathlessness, chronic fatigue and brain fog. Jade Townsend…