Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, gave the warning on Saturday during the Emergency Ministerial meeting on COVID-19 organised by the African Union and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
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His death comes as more medical personnel on the front lines of China’s battle against Covid-19 are falling ill with the disease
WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced this at a news conference in Geneva at the conclusion of a two-day research and innovation forum on COVID-19
Ninety-seven deaths and 2,015 new infections were reported over a 24-hour interval in mainland China, according to the country’s National Health Commission
The World Health Organisation says no fewer than 1.35 million people die annually from road traffic accidents.
The world is facing a chronic shortage of gowns, masks, gloves and other protective equipment in the fight against a spreading coronavirus epidemic, World Health Organisation Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday outlined ways to step-up cancer services for over seven million lives in low and middle-income countries across the world.
China’s Foreign Ministry has blasted the US Government for restricting the entry of Chinese nationals due to the coronavirus outbreak, which this week was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Nigeria, with the help of World Health Organisation has acquired in-country capacity to test for coronavirus.
The World Health Organization is scaling up novel coronavirus preparedness efforts in the African region and supporting countries to implement recommendations outlined by the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee.
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of NCDC, made the release available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja
According to a statement from WHO, the identified African nations have direct links or a high volume of travel to China
World Health Organisation has advised Member States to be ready for timely detection and management of any outbreak, especially coronavirus, as the death toll in China hit 56.
Several members of the WHO Emergency Committee considered that it was too early to declare it PHEIC, given its restrictive and binary nature
World Health Organisation on Thursday said the number of cholera cases decreased globally by 60 per cent in 2018.
World Health Organisation says overall global tobacco use reduced from 1.397 billion in 2000 to 1.337 billion in 2018 or by approximately 60 million people.
Following several years of steady progress towards elimination of measles in the European Region, the number of countries that have achieved or sustained elimination of the disease has declined.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control with the World Health Organisation and Ebonyi State Government are responding to the outbreak of yellow fever in the state, which has resulted in no fewer than 16 deaths, an official says.
More than 20 million Nigerians may be living with Hepatitis B virus unknown to them, Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala, said on Monday in Awka.
The travel alert was issued in a statement made available to newsmen by the Head of Media and Public Affairs of NAHCON, Fatima Usara, on Tuesday in Abuja