The Commissioner of Health in Kaduna State, Dr. Amina Muhammed-Baloni, has said that cholera outbreak has killed 175 people across the 23 Local Government Areas of Kaduna State in 2021. Baloni spoke when receiving cholera testing equipment donated by the World Health Organization to the state in Kaduna, which were […]
The head of the on Monday urged countries to work together to bring the acute phase of the pandemic to an end, saying that they now have all the tools available to do so. He said at a press conference alongside Germany’s development minister Svenja Schulze; “The COVID-19 pandemic is […]
World Health Organization has postulated that more than half of Europe’s population are on track to contract the Omicron coronavirus variant in the next two months if infections continue to rise at current rates. This was disclosed by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director Hans Kluge at a press […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against describing the Omicron variant as mild, saying it is killing people across the world. Recent studies suggest that Omicron is less likely to make people seriously ill than previous Covid variants. WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the record number of […]
The world’s first case of ‘flurona’, a rare mixture of influenza and coronavirus, has been detected in an unvaccinated pregnant woman in Israel. According to reports, the woman, who was already in hospital, became infected with both illnesses at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva last week although her symptoms […]
South Africa has lifted overnight curfew rules, with officials saying the country may have passed the peak of its fourth wave of Covid-19 infections. A government statement said the Omicron variant, while highly transmissible, had seen lower hospitalization rates than previous waves. There had been a marginal increase in the […]
The World Health Organization have announced today that research has shown no reports of deaths relating to the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. The WHO said it was collecting evidence about the variant of concern (VOC), as countries around the world are racing against its rapid spread but no deaths […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the Omicron coronavirus variant poses a high risk of infection surges around the globe. The WHO said on Monday that the variant could lead to severe consequences in some regions. The head of the organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, renewed a call […]
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned travel bans enacted against his country and its neighbors over the new coronavirus variant Omicron. Ramaphosa said he was “deeply disappointed” by the action, which he described as unjustified, and called for the bans to be urgently lifted. The UK, EU and US […]
The WHO says Covid vaccines reduce transmission of the dominant Delta variant by about 40 percent adding that people have been falling into a false sense of security. The World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged vaccinated people to continue to take measures to avoid catching Covid-19 and passing […]
