Tag: Tedos Adhonom Ghebreyesus
WHO characterises COVID-19 as pandemic
The director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that the new coronavirus outbreak can now be characterised...
Italian COVID-19 patient arrived in Nigeria aboard Turkish Airlines
FG directs NTA, VON, others to intensify sensitisation
Disease has pandemic
potential - WHO
The Italian national who tested positive for coronavirus
yesterday arrived in Lagos from Milan,...
Africa ill-equipped to handle COVID-19 outbreak – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed worry that African health systems may be ill-equipped to respond to the rapid COVID-19 outbreak.
The director general...
Nigeria’s Ihekweazu chairs global forum on coronavirus
The World Health Organisation has appointed the director general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu as one of the...
Coronavirus: Infected passengers evacuated on US flights
More than a dozen infected Americans from a coronavirus-riddled cruise ship off Japan flew on evacuation flights to the US with other passengers on...