Deaths rose by 15 percent across 38 African countries to nearly 3,000 in the same period. The Delta variant of coronavirus is driving the pandemic forward in Africa at record speeds, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Infection numbers have increased in Africa for six weeks running, rising by a quarter week-on-week to … Read more
Quitting tobacco was the way to reduce the risk of developing cancer, heart disease, stroke and other diseases, noting that it would also increase one’s life expectancy. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the use of tobacco products other than cigarettes, such as vaporisers like shisha, was on the increase in Africa. This is just … Read more
Africa has officially registered over 4.8 million COVID-19 cases and 130,000 deaths, WHO says. With vaccine deliveries at a near-standstill and lacking key resources in frontline care, Africa is poorly prepared for the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the UN warned on Thursday. “Many African hospitals and clinics are still far from ready to … Read more
The mood also darkened in Japan where the coronavirus state of emergency took in another three regions just 10 weeks before the Olympics… The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing … Read more
World Malaria Day is marked on April 25 every year to highlight global efforts to control malaria and celebrate the gains that have been made The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said malaria is responsible for an annual reduction of 1.3 per cent in Africa’s economic growth. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti disclosed … Read more
Mr Friday Igbinovia, Coordinator, World Health Organisation (WHO), Adamawa, on Tuesday urged the media to create more awareness on the importance of COVID-19 vaccines in the country. Igbinovia made the call at “A Three-Day Media Dialogue On Routine Immunisation, Post Polio Certification and COVID-19 Vaccination” in Yola organized by the Federal Ministry of Information and … Read more
… WHO regional director said Africa had been affected by the happenings in India The World Health Organisation has intimated Nigeria and some other African countries on delays in the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines. The WHO Africa Regional Director, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said this during a press conference with journalists. She, however, said Guinea, Guinea … Read more
Genomic testing of the virus indicates it was not engineered in a lab but passed naturally from animals Covid-19 probably came to people through an animal, and likely started spreading no more than a month or two before it was noticed in December of 2019, a World Health Organization draft report finds. The least likely … Read more
people are of the view that the COVID-19 vaccine will disrupt or even change their genetic material, while others think it is not effective in certain populations World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged the media to intensify campaign against misconception by residents on COVID-19 vaccine. The Immunisation Officer of WHO in Kaduna State, Dr Sambo … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva on Wednesday that some countries in the European Union (EU) that temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine did so as a precautionary measure. In a statement, the WHO said this decision was based on reports of rare blood coagulation disorders in persons who had … Read more
After several European Union countries temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO), on Wednesday, said that the vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks and vaccinations should continue. The statement follows reports of rare blood clotting disorders in people who have received the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. WHO notes that it’s … Read more
The World Health Organization on Friday approved Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, after already authorising the jabs made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca. “Every new, safe and effective tool against Covid-19 is another step closer to controlling the pandemic,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. The news comes after the single-dose jab won … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after several European countries suspended the rollout over blood clot fears. Austria on Sunday stopped using doses from one batch after a 49-year-old female nurse died 10 days after vaccination because of “severe blood coagulation problems”. The … Read more
WHO said too many countries thought the problem would simply pass them by Nearly a year after first describing Covid-19 as a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) complained on Monday that some failed to listen to its earlier urgent warnings. The WHO sounded its highest available level of alarm on January 30, 2020 by … Read more
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 2, 167 people have been vaccinated in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against Ebola. WHO Regional Office for Africa stated this in Ebola Outbreak Situation Report posted on its twitter @ WHOAFRO. According to the UN health agency, 1,804 people have been vaccinated … Read more
Women in Africa are less likely to die from COVID-19 than men, but more likely to succumb to maternal complications due to limited access to reproductive services since the pandemic started, the UN said Thursday citing reports. A study of 28 African countries including Guinea, Mauritius and Uganda showed that on average women accounted for … Read more
The two versions given the seal of approval are being produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII), and by SKBio in South Korea The World Health Organization (WHO) has given emergency use approval to AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccines, meaning distribution can start to poorer countries starved of doses to fight the pandemic. The AstraZeneca-Oxford jab … Read more
Research WHO held a global meeting of patients, clinicians and other stakeholders last week to advance understanding of what is officially called post-COVID-19 condition or long COVID. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says far more research is needed into the “constellation” of sometimes debilitating symptoms among people who have recovered from COVID-19, adding that it … Read more
COVID-19 vaccine, WHO, UNICEF appeal for vaccine solidarity “So that vaccine rollouts can begin in all countries of the world in the first 100 days of 2021,” the WHO and UNICEF chiefs said. You May Also Like WHO Mission To China Fails To Find Animal Source Of Coronavirus The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN … Read more
Former US president Donald Trump had repeated a controversial theory that a lab leak may have been the source of the pandemic Beijing, on the other hand, is desperate to defang criticism of its handling of the chaotic early stages of the outbreak. The WHO mission to China sent to uncover the origins of the … Read more