More than 409,000 people globally; most of them children in the impoverished parts of Africa were killed by malaria last year, the WHO said in its latest global malaria report, and COVID-19 will almost certainly make that toll higher in 2020.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are over two million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent. The…
The World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are over 1.9 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent. The…
At least 44,471 people have died from the virus across the continent, while nearly 1.5 million more have recovered, according to the data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Two United Nations’ agencies have ave expressed “extreme concern” about severe shortages of critical vaccines in Libya that threaten the health of children. The United Nations…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Kenya has witnessed what it calls a dramatic rise in new coronavirus (Covid-19) infections over the last month. The East…
As the world marks the World Mental Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged Somalia’s policy-makers, international and national agencies, and other civil society…
Kenya’s health ministry have relaxed the restrictions on burials of people who died from coronavirus (COVID-19), allowing families to play active roles in the final rites.…
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have launched a network of laboratories to reinforce genome sequencing…
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared the end of a 25-month outbreak of measles that claimed the lives of more than 7,000…