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A 55-year-old man who was admitted to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, has died in the facility. A reliable source at the tertiary hospital said the man died of COVID-19 complications. The source said the hospital discovered that the patient had COVID-19 after he tested positive to the virus when a Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test was done on his blood posthumously. “Fingerprint antibody test was done on him, confirming his COVID-19 infection,” our source said. According to our source, the man, a 55-year-old hypertensive and diabetic patient had presented to LUTH’s emergency unit on Thursday night with “malaise, tremors, and fever.” He was also diagnosed with acute chronic kidney disease and sepsis, our source said. The source, a caregiver, said the man did not disclose his travel history and had died “a few hours” after his admission to the Federal Government-owned facility. Vehicle used to convey the body of renal patient who died of COVID-...

                              Bob Weighton, the world's oldest man,                       turned 112 on Sunday, March 29. Photo: Guinness World Records. A Hampshire resident has been officially recognised as the world’s oldest man by Guinness World Records. Bob Weighton, who is 112 years and two days old, was presented with his certificate by staff at the assisted living home where he lives, while keeping the appropriate distance because he is isolating. A spokeswoman for Guinness World Records said that because of the Covid-19 outbreak, its officials were not able to reach Weighton, who lives in a flat in Alton, to hand over the certificate in person. She explained: “Adhering to current UK rules around social distancing, we were unable to meet Bob in person as we normally would. Instead the assisted living home where he lives presented him with hi...

There are finally signs of some good news in the fight against the coronavirus. Scientists in Wuhan, where the illness originated, are currently carrying out clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine. The Chinese Embassy in Spain's Twitter account shared a tweet that pointed out that the vaccine was undergoing trials. Around 5,000 people in Wuhan have signed up as volunteers for the vaccination and 108 of them were able to participate in the first phase. Participants will then spend a period of time in quarantine, where they will follow guidelines and communicate through WhatsApp groups. It will take at least a month to know if the results are as expected and, if they are, then the vaccine's chief scientist Chen Wei says "they can end the pandemic". "If the initial results show that it Is safe and it produces the desired results, we will test it abroad," Wei explained.