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News Central’s Poloum David reports on the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown in Abuja. Violators of the stay-at-home order are arrested for failure to wear face masks in suburbs of the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Madagascar had previously recorded no death for two months due to what it claimed was the effectiveness of its herbal remedy, Covid Organics. President Andry Rajoelina had previously donated the herbal remedy to ECOWAS countries and Nigeria received its consignment from the Guinea Bissau President on Saturday in Abuja.

Critics say the health risks are too high for a vote that opponents of President Patrice Talon insist should not be happening in the first place.

An investigation has been launched and officers of the judicial police are at the scene as well as health officials, a government statement said.

Several prominent Nigerians had been speculated as possible successors of the powerful and former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died last month of Covid-19 infection. He was regarded as a defacto president by many Nigerians.

The latest influx follows bloodshed in the Nigerian states of Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara, UNHCR said. Overall, Niger hosts more than half a million refugees, from Mali and Burkina Faso as well as Nigeria, a recent UN report said.

Guinea-Bissau currently has 761 confirmed coronavirus cases, including 26 recoveries and 3 deaths in the West African nation.

“In this new phase that will last not a few weeks but three or four months, we need to learn to live in the presence of the virus,” President Macky Sall said.

The troops were on a routine patrol on Sunday morning in Aguelhok commune in the north of the country, when their convoy hit a roadside bomb.

A video circulating on social media, which could not be independently verified, appears to show Koroma telling a crowd that rioters will be shot.