Tag: World Health Organisation
COVID-19 latest updates
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called the coronavirus the 'largest public health emergency' since the founding of communist China, as the death toll in...
Nigeria grouped among bottom 10 countries in child health devt index
Nigeria has been ranked 174th out of the 180 countries that were compared on indices of child health and overall well-being.
The report, released on...
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...
Four African countries license use of Ebola vaccines
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Ghana and Zambia have licensed the use of Ebola vaccines in their countries.
The endorsement came three months...
WHO names the new coronavirus disease COVID-19
The flu-like coronavirus that has sickened more than 43,100 people in over two dozen countries now has a name: COVID-19.
The CO stands for corona,...
China returns to work as deaths from coronavirus climb above 900
Millions of people in China returned to work Monday after an extended holiday aimed at slowing the spread of a coronavirus, with the extra...
25,000 people access coronavirus information in 10 days — WHO
No fewer than 25000 people across the globe accessed real-time knowledge from the World Health Organisation (WHO) experts on Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in 10 days...
Nigeria, 12 other African countries listed as top priority for coronavirus
As African countries take steps to contain a possible outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified Nigeria...
Latest on coronavirus: 305 people killed so far
First death recorded outside of China
The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 305 people and
infected more than 14,300 globally, as it continues to spread...
Coronavirus latest: Death toll across China now 258
The United States and other countries issued strict travel restrictions for foreign nationals who traveled to China as the number of deaths from the...
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