The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday the third wave of COVID-19 was stabilising in Africa. The WHO Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Wednesday that three new drugs are undergoing clinical trials in a bid to find effective treatments for COVID-19. The...
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday issued a warning to African countries over the emergence of a highly infectious haemorrhagic virus similar to Ebola that has...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated 26 ventilators and 3, 560 fingertip oxygen pulse oximeters to Nigeria. The WHO’s Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Walter...
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until at least the end of September. According to the apex...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday donated 1.5 million doses of cholera vaccine to Bauchi State. The Executive Chairman of the State Primary Health Care...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday the Delta variant of COVID-19 has spread to 16 countries across the world. The WHO Regional Director for...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Africa needs additional 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to vaccinate 10 per cent of its population by September this...
Despite controversies surrounding the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for the continuous use of the vaccine. In a statement on its...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said Sunday marked one year since COVID-19 hit the continent. The United Nations health agency disclosed this...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday reported a continued decline in COVID-19 cases globally. The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, who stated this at a...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Saturday dismissed as misplaced reports that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has delisted Nigeria from the list...
A team of experts of the World Health Organisation (WHO) who are on a mission to investigate the source of the dreaded COVID-19 virus, have visited...
A review of 2021 approved budget indicates that Nigeria may be spending just a little over N200 for the healthcare of each citizen. At a time...
The United Kingdom has banned flights from two African countries; Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo in a bid to stem the spread of the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday the mutant United Kingdom COVID-19 strain has been discovered in 60 countries across the world. In a statement...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday at least 42 countries had already rolled out the various COVID-19 vaccines cleared for use by relevant authorities....
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that there is no sign that the South African COVID-19 variant currently sweeping across the country can resist virus...
The Chinese government has refused to grant entry to a team of experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) mandated to investigate the origin of the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday granted emergency approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The United Nations health agency said in a statement the development paved...
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Saturday the COVID-19 crisis would not be the last pandemic and attempts...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Wednesday the Federal Government has signed up with the World Health Organisation(WHO), Gavi Alliance and manufacturers in...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said on Friday vaccines are the body’s major hope for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said on Tuesday there are currently 2.2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the continent. The United Nations...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that only public health measures and not vaccines can prevent a new surge of Covid-19 cases. WHO sounded the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday at least 172 persons had died from yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria. The WHO Spokesman, Tarik Jasarevic, who...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has strongly warned against the use of the antiviral drug, Remdesivir, for treatment of COVID-19 patients in the hospital. At a...
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that Covid-19 vaccines alone would not put an end to the pandemic. The agency’s Emergencies Programme Director, Mike Ryan...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday at least 18.3 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Africa were among people with diabetes. Diabetes is one of...
The World Health Organisation has designated 2021 as the International Year of Health and Care Workers (YHCW) to recognize “the dedication and sacrifices of millions of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday called for swift intervention over the outbreak of measles and polio in many...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has revealed that he is in self-isolation after coming in contact with someone who has...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the northern hemisphere is facing a crucial moment in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic with too many countries witnessing...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has set up a panel to probe allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by aid workers during the recent Ebola outbreak...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned against suggestions by some to just allow COVID-19 to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity, saying this...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has condemned allegations that its aid workers s*xually abused women while tackling an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
The World Health Organization expects Europe to see a rise in the daily number of COVID-19 deaths in October and November, the head of the body’s...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that Africa will get at least 220 million initial doses once the vaccine for the novel Covid-19 disease has...
The Vaccines Head for Africa at Sanofi Pasteur, Charles Wolf, on Tuesday said the continent must continue to fight the disease by vaccinating children. Sanofi Pasteur...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday there was a slim possibility of people being re-infected with COVID-19. The United Nations health agency’s statement was...
The World Health Organisation ( WHO) has declared the African continent free of polio virus. Africa had successfully wiped out the wild poliovirus on Tuesday with...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that young people across the globe are accelerating the spread of the deadly COVID-19 disease. This was revealed on...
World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday Nigeria, one of the African countries with a high number of COVID-19 cases, had strengthened surveillance to help check...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday the risk of COVID-19 infection through breastfeeding was negligible and had never been documented. The WHO Head of...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has stated that it has put plans in place to ensure that Nigerians have access to the coronavirus (COVID-19)...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned African governments on the gradual easing of COVID-19 restrictions which could possibly lead to a resurgence of the deadly...
COVID-19 infections may rise during the Eid-el-Kabir holidays due to an increase in social and religious gatherings, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. The agency’s...
The World Health Organisation has said that people with Hepatitis related complications are more prone to severe cases of COVID-19. The Regional Director for Africa of...
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine trial got under way on Monday in the United States of America with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that travel bans cannot be kept up indefinitely in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19. WHO in...
