Grave-counting satellite images seek to track Yemen’s COVID death toll
A first-of-its-kind study using satellite images to count fresh graves and analyse burial activity in Yemen has estimated the death toll there from COVID-19 or COVID-related causes is far higher…
China may witness further spread of Coronavirus – WHO
The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that the new coronavirus was likely to spread to other parts of China and possibly other countries in coming days. “More cases should…
Two new Ebola cases in Uganda raises fear of a “truly frightening” phase
Uganda announced two more cases of Ebola on Wednesday – a grandmother and a three-year-old boy, confirming that a deadly outbreak has spread for the first time beyond the Democratic…
Ebola: Health Experts Discuss Continuous Spread, To Decide If Emergency – WHO
Disease experts were evaluating whether an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that has killed more than 700 people and is continuing to spread now constitutes…
Doctor dies of cholera, 200 deaths in 3 months
Yemeni Doctor Mohammed Abdul-Mughni died of cholera after two weeks that he had been working in a temporary diarrhoea treatment centre in the grounds of a hospital in Sanaa where…