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WHO tasks media on increased COVID-19 vaccine awareness creation
April 13, 2021 Mr Friday Igbinovia, Coordinator, World Health Organisation (WHO), Adamawa, on Tuesday urged the media to create more awareness on the importance of taking 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 organised by Federal Ministry ...Less Than 2% Of World’s COVID-19 Vaccines Administered In Africa – WHO
April 8, 2021 Less than 2% of the 690 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to date globally have been in Africa, where most countries received vaccines only five weeks ago and in small quantities. Forty-five African countries have received vaccines, 43 of them have begun vaccinations and nearly 13 million of the 31.6 million doses ...Post-COVID-19: WHO issues 5 calls for urgent action to improve health for all
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued five calls for urgent action to improve health for all people, while urged countries to invest more in health facilities and services to build a fairer and healthier post-COVID-19 world. WHO made the call in a statement issued from its headquarters in Geneva to commemorate the World Health ...NCDC confirms bird flu outbreak in 7 Northern states
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed reported human cases of Avian Influenza H5N1 also called “Bird flu” Kano, Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger States. The NCDC Director General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Abuja, while providing highlights ...China first to conduct joint study of COVID-19 origins with WHO – Chinese Expert
China is the first country to conduct a joint study on the origins of COVID-19 with the World Health Organisation (WHO), a senior Chinese expert said on Wednesday. The history of infectious diseases tells us that it generally takes a long time to identify the origin of a new infectious disease and have the findings ...COVID-19 Likely Jumped From Bats To Humans – WHO Report
An international expert mission to Wuhan has concluded it was very likely that Covid-19 first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, while all but ruling out a laboratory leak. The intermediate host hypothesis was deemed “likely to very likely”, while the theory that the virus escaped from a lab was seen ...Two-third of Africans willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine – Survey
Two-third of Africans interviewed have expressed willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccines, says the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Africa CDC disclosed this in a statement from its Addis Ababa, Ethiopia headquarter on Thursday. This was revealed as part of the findings of a report released by the Partnership for Evidence- ...The world should be back to normal by end-2022 due to vaccines – Bill Gates
The world should be back to normal by the end of 2022 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, Bill Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24. “This is an incredible tragedy,” the Microsoft co-founder said on the pandemic, adding that the only good news was the access to vaccines. “By ...At The Moment, Benefits Of AstraZeneca Vaccine Outweighs Risks – WHO
Some countries in the European Union have temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a precautionary measure based on reports of rare blood coagulation disorders in persons who had received the vaccine. Other countries in the EU – having considered the same information – have decided to continue using the vaccine in ...COVID-19: Johnson & Johnson Jab Effective In Countries With Variants – WHO Experts
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) expert vaccine advisers said Wednesday they could recommend Johnson and Johnson’s Covid-19 jab for use in countries where coronavirus variants of concern are circulating. The vaccine has proven effective “in the countries where there is a high spread of the variants”, Alejandro Cravioto, the chair of the WHO’s Strategic Advisory ...
