The fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria has received a boost, as the country received 26 ventilators and other equipment from the World Health Organisation. Nigeria also took delivery of 3,560 fingertip oxygen pulse oximeters as authorities step up efforts to curb the spread of the disease in the period of a third wave. Minister of […]Read More
CAIRO: The World Health Organisation (WHO) Wednesday warned of “staggering health needs” in the occupied Palestinian Territories after last month’s conflict between Israel and Islamist group Hamas. “WHO is scaling up its response to provide health aid for almost 200,000 people in need across the occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT),” which includes the West Bank, WHO’s […]Read More
The Netherlands has become the latest country to suspend use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine over concerns about possible side effects. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) say there is no indication of a link between the vaccine and reports of blood clots. Eight countries have so far fully suspended […]Read More
•W.H.O Acknowledges State Govt’s Leadership in Disease Control Lagos State will start rolling out Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines at the weekend, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu confirmed on Wednesday. Sanwo-Olu said a steering committee set up for the vaccine administration was in its final stage of preparation for the deployment of the vaccine, confirming that the State had […]Read More
• WHO decries rising cancer cases in Africa, from 338,000 in 2002 to 846,000 in 2020 • Patients with cancer face reduced access to care, competition for scarce resources • Breast cancer costs N18m out-of-pocket for initial treatment • About 200 Nigerians die every day from cancer, with 32 from breast cancer, 28 from cervical […]Read More
A team of investigators working on behalf of the World Health Organization wrapped up a visit on Wednesday to a major virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan, in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts spent about 3-1/2 hours at the heavily-guarded Wuhan Institute of Virology, […]Read More
Nigeria has extended its search for COVID-19 vaccines to Russia and India in a bid to get enough supplies to meet its target of vaccinating 40 per cent of its population by the end of 2021. The federal government said it has obtained vaccine samples from Russia and India for testing by the National Agency […]Read More
… Hosts Sixth African Conference on Biosecurity, One Health In a bid to ensure that African countries brace up to the challenges posed by the increase in emerging infectious diseases and biosecurity threats, especially against the backdrop of the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the Lagos State Government, in partnership with a non-governmental organisation, Global Emerging Pathogens […]Read More
The head of the World Health Organization said Monday that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic is raging months after it broke out, with infections soaring past 54 million and claiming more than 1.3 million lives. “A vaccine will complement the other tools we have, not replace them,” director-general […]Read More
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that it had “temporarily” suspended clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 being carried out across a range of countries as a precautionary measure. The decision came after the publication last week of a study in the Lancet indicating that using the drug on […]Read More
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