WHO predicts Covid-19 pandemic may extend beyond 2021
The World Health Organisation (WHO) believes it is unlikely the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)will come to an end this year. “I think it will be very premature and unrealistic to think…
COVID-19: Global recovery could be faster if vaccine is made available to all – WHO chief
Economic recovery around the world could come faster if any COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…
Africa records first confirmed case of COVID-19
Africa recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Friday as a foreigner who had been put in isolation at a hospital in Egypt tested positive for the disease. In…
WHO sounds alarm on Ebola, says unable to stamp out virus due to Congo insecurity
About 360 people are at potential risk of Ebola after contact with an infected person in eastern Congo yet many of them are out of reach due to clashes and…
WHO says Ebola concentrated in Congo mining area, still an int’l emergency
Ebola is infecting and killing people in a gold mining area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the “complex and dangerous” outbreak still constitutes an international emergency, the World…
WHO says Congo Ebola death toll expected to exceed 1,000, fears continued “intense transmission”
The World Health Organisation said on Friday it feared continued “intense transmission” of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where deaths from a nine-month-old epidemic is 994 and…