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The Lagos State Government Wednesday said it has reopened the Indo Isolation Centre at Anthony to create more bed spaces for severe to critical cases of COVID-19 patients in the state.
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Mr Yunana Y. Babas, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 8 Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, is dead, The Street Jornal has learnt.
According to close sources, the senior officer died in the early hours of Thursday, January 14, 2020, after suffering complications allegedly linked to COVID-19.
Until his death, he headed the zone 8 police division situated in Lokoja.
AIG Babas was lifted from the rank of Commissioner of Police to Assistant Inspector General of Police in November 2019 by the current IGP, Adamu Mohammed, mni.
Similarly, sources with the force revealed that the deceased AIG was being tapped among AIG Dan Bature, AIG DFA FHQ; AIG Hyelasinda Kimo Musa; AIG PMF; AIG Dan Mallam Mohammed, AIG SPU; AIG Mua’zu Zubairu Halilu, AIG CTU; AIG Rabiu Yusuf – AIG ICT and others as possible replacements for IGP Adamu whose tenure is set to expire in February 2021, after 35 years in active service.
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A team of Nigerian professors and scientists has proposed the adoption of a drug, Ivermectin, as part of the uniform treatment guidelines of COVID-19 in the country and as prophylaxis, pending the rollout of vaccination programmes or alongside them.
The proposal is contained in the report of a research carried out by the team of scientists led by an Ophthalmologist and Surgeon, Professor Femi Babalola and the Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Professor Chris Bode.
In the report presented to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the team of researchers found out that Ivermectin inhibits viral entry into cells nucleus and guarantees direct suppression of viral RNA load of SARS CoV2.
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