Tag: World Health Organisation
Lagos lists 88 COVID-19 vaccination centres
The Lagos State Government has released the list of 88 health facilities, including military and police hospitals, which have been selected to provide vaccination...
Research group on use of Ivermectin drug for COVID-19 treatment submits...
A team of Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the effectiveness of Ivermectin drug in the treatment of the coronavirus disease yesterday submitted its report...
Second wave: South Africa imposes fresh restrictions
South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from Tuesday after a surge in coronavirus cases, as the World Health Organization...
ICYMI: The year of the face mask
Simon Kolawole
What a year. What a year. What. A. Year. Muddled and fragmented. Masked up and washed up. It was a tasteless year, the...
Nigeria takes delivery of COVID-19 vaccines January – Ehanire
The minister of health, Dr Osagie Ehanire said yesterday that Nigeria will take delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in January 19, 2021.
He said a technical...
WHO considers e-certificates for COVID-19 vaccination
The World Health Organisation said it was considering introducing electronic vaccination certificates, as hopes for an end to the pandemic were boosted after Britain...
WHO launches strategy to eliminate cervical cancer
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday launched a strategy to rid the world of cervical cancer, stressing that broad use of vaccines, new...
The global race for COVID vaccine
Reuben Abati
If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven beyond doubt, it is how humanity depends on science for its survival. Every...
Okonjo-Iweala gets Buhari’s assurance for WTO topmost job
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the Nigerian candidate for the post of director general of the World Trade Orgnisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala that...
Report says 1.9m stillbirths recorded globally in 2019
An estimated 1.9 million babies were stillborn at 28 weeks of pregnancy or later in 2019, according to the first ever joint stillbirth estimates...
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