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COVID-19 on the increase since December 2022 – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 170,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the past eight weeks.
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus...
COVID-19 pandemic unlikely to end in 2021 – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is unlikely the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will end in 2021.
“I think it will be very premature...
Ghana receives world’s first doses of free COVAX vaccines
Ghana has become the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization's COVAX programme.
A joint statement issued by UNICEF Ghana and...
Africa must increase healthcare funding despite end of polio – Dangote
Chairman, Aliko Dangote Foundation and philanthropist Aliko Dangote has urged governments across Africa, the Nigerian government and state governments to increase their budget allocations...
Nigerian soldier jailed 55 years for killing WHO worker
A Nigerian soldier has been sentenced to 55 years imprisonment for the death of a member of staff of the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Okonjo-Iweala appointed WHO coronavirus special envoy
Former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named a special envoy by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the newly inaugurated Access to...
Third WHO official, two others test positive for coronavirus in Bauchi
Bauchi State has recorded three new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Information Officer, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Ibrahim Sani, confirmed the three...
Another WHO employee tests positive for coronavirus in Bauchi
Bauchi State Government has said that another employee of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Governor Bala Mohammed revealed this...
No approved vaccine yet for coronavirus in Nigeria – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday insisted that there was no approved vaccine in Nigeria or any part of Africa for the coronavirus...
WHO employee tests positive for coronavirus in Bauchi
An employee of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Bauchi State has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care...