Reading Time: 2 minutes Nigeria is expected to take delivery of its first batch of COVID-19 vaccine allocation on Tuesday, March 3, 2021 the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed in Ghana’s capital Accra, the World Health Organization…
View More Covid-19: Ghana Becomes First Country To Receive Vaccines Through COVAX
Reading Time: 2 minutes The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that cancer cases have more than doubled in the African region, from 338,000 cases reported in 2002 to…
View More Cases Of Cancer in Africa Hits 846,000, Says WHO
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a bid to ensure that Nigeria is not left out in the scramble for COVID-19 vaccines, the federal government said that it has obtained…
View More Federal Government Turns To Russia, India As Scramble For COVID-19 Vaccines Increases
Reading Time: 5 minutes The federal government of Nigeria and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have said that COVID-19 vaccines will first be given to 20 per cent of…
View More COVID-19: FG, WHO Targets 20% Of Nigeria’s Population For Vaccination
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus says he has gone into self-quarantine having been in contact with someone who has…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, October 29, that hoodlums looted one of its offices in Nigeria and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute No fewer than 41,000 health workers across Africa have been infected with the COVID-19 disease, the World Health Organisation has said. It stated that there…
View More Above 41,000 African Health Workers Infected With Virus, Says WHO
Reading Time: 3 minutes For a disease responsible for 430 deaths daily and at least 157,000 deaths annually in Nigeria, stakeholders in the health sector have decried the level…
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published guidance for clinicians and health care decision-makers on the use of corticosteroids in patients with COVID-19. This was…
View More WHO Recommends Corticosteroids For Treatment Of Critical COVID-19 Cases