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WHO, in a statement Tuesday, cited authorities in the country that the case concerned a 46-year-old woman who died on August 15 in the town of Beni.

The organisation said that the outbreak affected the north-western Équateur province, with the first case recorded there on April 23.

For the third time in three decades, an opposition leader defeated the sitting president sending a message to the world that the continent may not be the incumbent’s lair after all.

The department did a health walk to create awareness in the community on the essence of quick testing and management of hepatitis

In a letter dated October 6, 2020 and signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, the re-appointment will be with effect from January 10, 2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that except in cases of hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola, Marburg and cholera, dead bodies are generally not infectious.

The World Health Organisation says there have been no reported case of Ebola Virus Disease in Democratic Republic of Congo for five weeks.

This follows media reports that a South African woman, staying in Ficksburg not far from neighbouring country Lesotho, was confirmed as the first case of Ebola in the country.

The House of Representatives has called for the immortalisation of the late Dr Stella Adadevoh in recognition of her contributions to curbing the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease in 2014.

The Publisher, who spoke on Tuesday in Abuja at the opening of the 2019 National Health Dialogue organised by the newspaper, said the brave medic’s heroics should be emulated in the drive for Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.

“The DRC authorities … have once again shown leadership and their determination to end this outbreak as soon as possible,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.

The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Maria Espinosa, “is delighted” by news that Ebola may soon be a preventable and treatable disease.

NCAA’s General Manager, Public Relations, Sam Adurogboye, confirmed the directive in a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday.

Congo’s Presidency on Thursday said Rwandan authorities had closed the border between Goma and its nearest town of Gisenyi for all people other than Congolese citizens leaving Rwanda.

Botswana’s health ministry on Friday said the country was on high alert for the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

WHO chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus, who announced the declaration in Geneva, called on countries to “take notice and redouble our efforts”

In an update on Friday, the world health body said 2,284 people had been infected since the outbreak in the country’s Ituri and North Kivu provinces nearly 11 months ago

Federal Government has directed port health service officials and other relevant agencies at the points of entry to Nigeria to heighten surveillance toward ensuring that all passengers coming into the country are screened.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Thursday reassured Nigerians that adequate measures had been put in place at the nation’s airports to prevent Ebola outbreak in the country.

The number of Ebola cases in Congo has exceeded 1,000, the country’s health ministry said, as the second-largest outbreak of the virus continues to wreak havoc in the central African country.