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Symptomatic patients to spend 10 days, asymptomatic, 14 days Negative test no longer required 350 new cases move tally to 11,516 with 323 dead; 3,535 persons discharged Nigeria, UK, others seek global funding for vaccines WHO explains resumption of Hydroxychloroquine clinical trials Mosques, churches to reopen in Lagos June 19 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday unveiled new guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, which will quicken their discharge from isolation and treatment centres. Under the new guidelines, which provide that a negative test will no longer be required to discharge a patient, symptomatic ones will be…

Barcelona forward Luis Suarez is in line to return from a long injury lay-off when La Liga resumes next week behind closed doors in the heat of the Spanish summer after a three-month coronavirus shutdown. Suarez, 33, was sidelined for four months in January after undergoing surgery on his right knee but could make his comeback on June 13 when leaders Barcelona travel to Mallorca, for their first game since early March. “I feel very good, adapting to training with my team-mates. Returning after an injury is always difficult because you are a little scared but I’m enjoying being back,”…

Managers will be able to make up to five substitutions for the remainder of the 2019/20 Premier League season after clubs agreed to the temporary rule change at a meeting on Thursday. FIFA proposed the solution last month to “protect player welfare” with a large number of matches packed into a few weeks to clear the backlog of a three-month layoff due to the coronavirus pandemic. Premier League clubs also agreed to increase the number of substitutes available for selection from seven to nine for the remainder of the season. “For the remainder of the 2019/20 season, the number of…

Tottenham have received a £175 million ($220 million) loan from the Bank of England to help them through the coronavirus crisis as the club predicted losses of £200 million over the next year. Spurs’ finances will be damaged by the loss of matchday and hospitality income, cancellation of non-football events such as NFL matches and concerts and rebates owed to television broadcasters. “Due to the significance of income from matchday, conferencing and third-party live events such as concerts and other sports, our estimated revenue loss, including broadcast rebates, may exceed £200 million for the period to June 2021,” Tottenham said…

Atletico Madrid forward Diego Costa has been ordered to pay a fine of 543,000 euros ($608,000) after admitting to defrauding Spanish tax authorities of more than a million euros, judicial sources said Thursday. Costa, 31, was sentenced to six months in jail, but instead agreed to pay an additional fine of 36,000 euros on top of his initial fine to avoid serving time, as is customary in Spain for prison terms of under two years for non-violent crimes. The Spain international was accused of failing to declare payments totalling over 5.15 million euros from his move to Chelsea in 2014.…

Niran Adedokun Far too many things break the heart about Nigeria. There is the grinding poverty that robs citizens of dignity; pervasive insecurity, which has turned nearly everyone into jittery refugees in their own country and the combination of many other factors gradually taking humanity away from Nigerians. That, which has stifled fellow feeling, made enemies of compatriots and completely devalued life. This last week presented snippets of all these and more. There was the tragic death of Vera Omozuwa, a 22-year-old student of the University of Benin. Vera, popularly called Uwa, like the tragic hero in Arthur Miller’s play,…

Michael Omisore Like a child suffering from dizziness after being flung round and round by a mischievous adult, the world will gradually recover from the unpleasant effects of COVID-19. Only that when the dust finally settles, different facets of life and society may have changed phases and there will be a most urgent need to quickly come to terms with those socio-economic changes and responsively adapt to them. The facet under scrutiny here is education. And what a whole new phase might have been forced open by the effects of the pandemic. For the first time in our clime, remote…

Abimbola Adelakun The untoward death of Vera “Uwa” Uwaila Omozuwa, cuts deeply. In recent times, there have been incidences of violence but the circumstances of her death make this one saddening and entirely enraging. According to reports, Uwa was studying in the church when the gruesome assault happened. For now, there is not much information to go by, although there is some cheering news that the police already made some arrests. I hope the police follow this to the desired conclusion where her attackers face the fullest fury of the law. I hope and pray her family find the fortitude…

Taking hydroxychloroquine shortly after being exposed to COVID-19 does not help prevent infection in a statistically meaningful way, scientists reported Wednesday following a clinical trial. The medicine has been touted by US President Donald Trump, who has said he used it as a prophylaxis against the novel coronavirus. But an experiment involving 821 people across the United States and Canada showed it did not work significantly better than a placebo for this purpose. The study was led by a team at the University of Minnesota, and their paper was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers enrolled adults…

An urgent call for Africans, African Americans and Latinos to pay attention to their Vitamin D status. There is a lot of talk, stories, news and so on about coronavirus in all media at this time. Newspapers, social media, television and various other media full of one story or the other daily about coronavirus pandemic. As an individual, I have decided never to be shaken by these stories and more so as a minister of the gospel, it is what GOD says about this scourge that is of more importance to me. The word of GOD says in the book…