Suicidal Games: Tokyo’s Coronavirus Olympics

A pandemic crisis.  A state of emergency.  Overwhelming public opinion bristling with alarm.  Notwithstanding these factors, Tokyo is still on track to host the Olympics that was cancelled last year in response to the global pandemic.  The first sports team – Australia’s softball crew – has touched down.  Is all this folly, bravery or self-interest? […]

Coronavirus Travels and Cruising with Viking

It starts off as an exercise of anticipation.  First comes the softening drinks and teasing morsels which find their mark.  The audience at this promotions gig is well heeled, of an age where they have money to burn, but nowhere to burn it.  They have not travelled on a luxurious prison of bliss for eighteen […]

Coronavirus Strikes Papua New Guinea

There was a time when it seemed Papua New Guinea had managed to dodge a bullet.  Instances of SARS-CoV-2 were minimal, along with its disease, COVID-19.  Through 2020, the country of eight million people recorded a mere 900 cases.  The World Health Organization praised the PNG government in a September 2020 news release in “taking […]

Going Airborne: Coronavirus and Hotel Quarantine

It has happened again.  This time, a diligent worker, having followed all the protocols given to him, had returned a positive result for COVID-19.  The 26-year-old had been serving as a resident support officer in the Australian Open quarantine program in Melbourne, Victoria.  Yet for all that, he still could not avoid contracting the virus.  […]

Coronavirus Education: Learning and Teaching from the Margins

The coronavirus student, a species brought forth in the world of education by a pandemic that has killed over 400,000 people in the United States and 100,000 in the United Kingdom, is a troubled creature.  When universities and schools across the globe were given varying and often contradictory messages on the safety of continuing in […]

COVID-19: NCDC reports 122 new infections in Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 122 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. The public health agency stated that the new infection were reported from 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The agency said that […]

COVID-19: NCDC reports 281 new infections in Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 281 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified Website on Tuesday. The agency said that the infections brought the total number of cases in Nigeria to 67,838. Of the new infections, data obtained from the agency’s website […]

Doctored Indignation: Australia-China Relations

Clay foot diplomacy is all the rage in Canberra, and the Australian government has become a solid practitioner.  Having stuck its neck out across continents and seas to proclaim the need to investigate China over the origins of the novel coronavirus, the Morrison government now finds itself in the tightest of corners.  Very much one […]

Another Wave Of COVID-19 Imminent In Nigeria – Expert

An Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Consultant at the General Hospital, Ijede, Dr. Babatope Oni, has called on all tiers of government and the entire public to prevent a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the monthly Continuous Medical Education (CME) organised by the Ijede General Hospital in Lagos State, Oni stated that the period […]

157 fresh COVID-19 cases in Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 157 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The centre made this known via its verified website on Monday. There was an increase of five cases from the 152 reported on Nov. 15. NAN reports that the country had tested 705,809  people since the […]