Tag: World Health Organisation

The appointment of  Chikwe Ihekweazu as an assistant Director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), as assumed by the Director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus said, the appointment  will “further accelerate WHO’s work…

Brazil  has recorded 4,000 deaths from COVID-19 in 24 hours, making it  the third country to exceed that number. The health ministry on Tuesday, said 4,195 deaths from COVID-19 were…

A coalition has petitioned the Lagos State House of Assembly on the high cost of (COVID-19 tests in private laboratories in Lagos State. The call is contained in a statement…

The has urged the United States to intervene through appropriate policy measures in order to end global hunger. President of AfDB and winner of the 2017 World Food Prize, Dr.…

At least 30 students were hospitalised on Monday due to a strange disease at the Government Girls College (GGC), Sokoto. Abdurrahman Dantsoho, the Director of Public Health in the state,…

The new Ebola outbreak in the West African nation of Guinea is directly related to the region’s devastating epidemic between 2014 and 2016. The African Centres for Disease Control (CDC)…

Covid-19 appears likely to develop into a seasonal disease, the United Nations said Thursday, cautioning though against relaxing pandemic-related measures simply based on meteorological factors. More than a year after…

Many countries have started receiving doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and are already vaccinating their populations. This major feat achieved about a year after the outbreak of the pandemic portends…

The absence of Tanzania President John Magufuli from the public has sparked off a rumour that he contracted COVID-19 and on admission in a hospital. Magafuli was reportedly last seen…

COVAX, the global alliance against COVID-19, has donated a total of 16,008,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria. In a distribution forecast published on Wednesday, the coalition said the AstraZaneca/Oxford vaccine doses…