The State Coordinator, Dr. Jibrin Alkasim, said the rising number of positive cases had thrown up the challenge of following up on several contacts within the state
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About half a billion people worldwide are living with genital herpes, while several billions of people have oral herpes infection, new estimates by the World Health Organisation have shown.
The World Health Organisation is worried by the community spread of the new coronavirus in a significant number of West African countries, the regional head of the organisation said on Thursday.
The World Health Organisation says the number of reported COVID-19 cases in the WHO African Region has increased from 30,000 to over 31,000 in the past 24 hours.
The Director-General of the organisation, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the announcement during the launch of the ACT Accelerator — via webinar from Geneva
The World Health Organization has called on the Nigerian Government not to forget about other diseases amid the Novel Coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the country.
The number of malaria deaths in Africa could double to 769,000 this year as efforts to curb the disease are disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation warned on Thursday.
The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that there were “worrying upward trends” in early epidemics in parts of Africa and Central and South America, warning that opening up global travel needed to be managed carefully.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday insisted that there was no approved vaccine in Nigeria or any part of Africa for COVID-19, saying researches are still ongoing on the deadly viral disease.
Dr. Aliyu Maigoro, Bauchi State Commissioner for Health, confirmed this on Sunday in a statement in Bauchi by Ibrahim Sani, Information Officer, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency
Dr. Fiona Braka, Officer-in-Charge of the World Health Organisation in Nigeria, has advised Nigerians to practice physical distancing and imbibe respiratory etiquette to keep safe from Coronavirus Disease.
The World Health Organisation Office in Nigeria says Coronavirus is not a death sentence.
The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, stated this at a news conference in Geneva, as posted on the agency’s Twitter handle: @WHO
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 Word Health Organisation has listed the first two diagnostic tests for emergency use during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo says there are 9,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the African continent with 466 deaths.
The doctors’ remarks during a TV debate sparked outrage, and they were accused of treating Africans like “human guinea pigs”
A statement by the Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the agency was notified by the World Health Organisation of the circulation of the tablets in Cameroon
The World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo says there are now 8,596 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on the African continent with 383 deaths.
NCDC, through its verified Twitter account on Sunday, said of the 10 new cases, Lagos has six, while Abuja and Edo have two each