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Lagos State Government has revealed that the state has reached the peak of COVID-19 outbreak and that the virus is running out of numbers to infect. It however said being at the peak calls for continuous safe health practices as it…

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recorded a fresh Ebola outbreak in the country's northwest, just weeks before declaring the end of the epidemic in east of the country. Health Minister Eteni Longondo announced  this on Monday…

The Ebola deadly virus, that raged in some West African countries several years ago has made a rerurn in the northwest part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing 17 people. Congo’s  health ministry on Tuesday described the…

Nigeria is suffering its worst outbreak of Lassa fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, as local health officials said 72 people had died since the start of this year. Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has reached…

A woman has died of Ebola in Liberia, months after the West African nation was declared free of the deadly virus and weeks after neighbouring Guinea also recorded a new flare-up, health officials said on Friday. “A young lady in her…