Nigeria and five other African countries have been chosen to begin production of COVID-19 vaccine, with the continent having had limited access to jabs. The World Health Organisation announced this on Friday. The other countries are: Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. According to the WHO, they were...
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The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe. This is the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years, a statement by the WHO Regional Office...
The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the International Day to eliminate the harmful practice. International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM is a UN-sponsored annual awareness day that takes place on Feb. 6 as...
World Health Organisation (WHO) says Omicron wave is threatening to overwhelm health workers in the coming weeks in Europe, with forecasts that more Europeans are likely to become infected with the variant. Currently, the Omicron variant of COVID-19 represents a “new west to east tidal wave sweeping across the...
By AISHA NANA, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Government has dismissed the report making the rounds that the state has recorded 38 fresh Wild Polio Virus (WPV) cases. The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BSPHCDA), Dr Rilwan Mohammed, made the clarifications in a statement on...
The Bauchi State Government says it has targeted 2.286 million children for immunisation against polio in the 2022 first round exercise. The Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, stated this at the inauguration of the exercise on Saturday in Bauchi. Dr. Mohammed said the exercise...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Moji Adeyeye, has vowed to ensure that the country do not end up becoming a dumping ground for chemicals banned in other countries. Prof. Adeyeye, who disclosed this in...
A bird flu outbreak has killed more than 2,000 wild cranes on a reserve in northern Israel, an unusually high toll for the seasonal flu, the parks authority said Sunday. In addition to the 2,000 dead, another 10,000 are believed to be infected, Ohad Hatsofe, a specialist at the...
U.S. has contributed 10 million dollars to assist the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its work on COVID-19 response and addressing threats to human, animal and environmental health, including future pandemics. The funding, announced on Thursday, would support the UN agency’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, part...
As many friends and families consider whether to celebrate Christmas together, World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a reminder on Wednesday that “anyone who ignores COVID-19 is…perpetuating it”. WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean region, Ahmed Al-Mandhari, in his message said the pandemic was far from over. Citing the...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially declared Thursday the end of the latest Ebola outbreak, the second outbreak in 2021, according to the DRC’s health authorities. In total, 11 cases — eight confirmed, three probable, including six deaths, were reported in the outbreak that was declared on...
Africa is being left behind, having received only 450million of the eight billion COVID vaccine doses distributed. Dr Richard Mihigo, Immunization and Vaccines Development Programme, Coordinator World Health Organisation’s Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), made this known while speaking on “Vaccination in Africa: Research Capacity, Advocacy, Manufacturing and...
About one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, Reuters reported. According to two sources who spoke to Reuters, it was one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows the difficulty of African nations in getting shots. Governments on...
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has commended Nigeria for its huge investment in health security during the fight against COVID-19. The Emergency Preparedness and Response Cluster Lead of the WHO in Nigeria, Dr Rex Mpazanje, gave the commendation on Monday in Abuja, at a three-day Technical Meeting of the...
World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday urged countries not to panic but to prepare for the likely spread of COVID-19 Omicron variant as scientists continue to study it. Speaking in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier stressed that data suggesting that Omicron was highly transmissible was only preliminary. The UN...
The World Health Organization said Friday it had not seen any reports of deaths relating to the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. The WHO said it was collecting evidence about the variant of concern (VOC), as countries around the world scramble to stop it from spreading. But despite a...
The World Bank Group has called on the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to improve primary healthcare. “If we want to improve healthcare in Nigeria, we need to tax the things that are killing us. “The economic rationale for taxing these products...
African countries are stepping up measures to detect and control the spread of the Omicron variant. This became necessary as weekly new COVID-19 cases in the continent rose by 54 per cent due to an upsurge in southern Africa, said the World Health Organisation in a statement released on...
The Federal Government has insisted that the country is yet to record a case of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19, despite Canadian authorities’ claims that two passengers from Nigeria had tested positive. Speaking at the Presidential Steering Committee briefing in Abuja, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease...
World Health Organisation (WHO) says it still ‘not clear’ whether Omicron COVID variant is more transmissible or more severe than Delta variant. WHO, in a statement on Sunday, said that its experts, researchers in South Africa and around the world are currently conducting studies to better understand Omicron. The...