AHEAD of the Christmas and New Year festivities which will witness an increase in social gatherings, the World Health Organisation has predicted a spike in COVID-19 cases. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said this during a webinar attended by select African journalists on Thursday. Moeti urged […]
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The World Health Organisation says hoodlums, who took advantage of the #EndSARS protests, looted one of its offices in Nigeria, making away with Personal Protective Equipment and other items used in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The African Regional Director of WHO, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said this while […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it will be “very unrealistic” to see stadium events back for the remainder of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Speaking during an online discussion, Michael Ryan – executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies programme – said it would be “disastrous” to allow the […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reacted to a video of a Cameroonian medical doctor Kameni Pierre, claiming to have been healed of Coronavirus by Prophet TB Joshua via his church channel, Emmanuel TV. The gynecologist and obstetrician who claimed to have suffered Coronavirus, said he received his healing after […]
Nigerian activist, Lolo Cynthia Ihesie has revealed how she felt, after recently discovering that she was circumcised as a child. According to the WHO, female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs […]
The coronavirus may never go away and populations will have to learn to live with it just as they have HIV, the World Health Organization has warned, as the global death toll from the disease nears 300,000. There were also gloomy forecasts from the US Federal Reserve, which said prolonged […]
The global death toll in the novel coronavirus pandemic soared past the grim 200,000 milestone on Sunday, as the World Health Organization warned against “immunity passports” for recovered patients, seen as a possible tool for countries preparing to re-open their economies. The WHO opposes such “passports” because recovery from the […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reportedly called for suspension of all football matches until the end of next season, 2021. This is following the increasing cases of Coronavirus across the world. There are over two million confirmed cases recorded globally since Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. According to Italian […]
The World Health Organization, WHO, on Tuesday urged countries to apply caution in lifting COVID-19 lockdowns, warning of a resurgence of infections if current restrictions were relaxed too soon. Takeshi Kasai, WHO’s Regional Director for the Western Pacific, said this during an online media briefing in Manila, NAN reports. Kasai […]
WHO through a statement on Friday, debunked the myth, adding that COVID-19 was spread through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks. “People can also be infected by touching a contaminated surface and then their eyes, mouth or nose,” it said. WHO added that COVID-19 was spreading […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo says access to water for all is critical to fighting the Coronavirus (COVID-19). WHO also stated that toilets, hand washing facilities in healthcare centres must be scaled up in the fight against COVID-19. The UN health agency said […]
The World Health Organization, WHO, has warned African countries to prepare for the worst as coronavirus cases increase in the continent. So far 233 cases of the deadly virus had been registered in sub-Saharan Africa which makes it the least-affected region in a global pandemic. But, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the increasing signs of transmission of COVID-19 outside China indicates a narrowing of the window of opportunity to contain the virus outbreak globally. WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, who made this known on Saturday during the Emergency Ministerial meeting on COVID-19 organised […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday declared coronavirus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the decision was based on the recommendations of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005). In a statement […]
Cameroonian Doctor, Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung was killed on Friday,Aug 2, in an attack on an Ebola response command center in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Three doctors have been arrested in eastern Congo over the murder of a World Health Organisation (WHO) epidemiologist. A military prosecutor made this known […]
