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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said Nigeria is at ‘moderate risk’ of experiencing an Ebola outbreak. The centre disclosed this in its health advisory released on Thursday following the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in…

China has reported its first COVID-19 death in months, as World Health Organisation (WHO) team arrived in the country to probe the pandemic’s origins. The latest death raises the toll to 4,635 among 87,844 cases, sparking worry among…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said at least 42 countries are already rolling out various COVID-19 vaccines which have been cleared for use with 36 of them as high income nations. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made…

World Health Organisation has said the overuse of antibiotics to treat the coronavirus — sometimes unnecessarily — has caused a sexually transmitted infection, Super Gonorrhoea to find a new way to thrive. Gonorrhea is a bacterial…

World Health Organisation has Tuesday said it is in discussions with Pfizer and Moderna about possibly including their high-tech coronavirus vaccines among early jabs for poor countries at affordable prices. WHO-backed Covax facility,…

World Health Organization has on Monday expressed that persuading people to receive COVID-19 vaccine would be better than trying to make the jabs mandatory. The UN health organization said it would be down to individual countries as to…

World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced that he was self-quarantining after a close contact tested positive for COVID-19. Ghebreyesus in a tweet late Sunday stated; I have been identified as a contact…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended corticosteroid drugs for the treatment of critically ill COVID-19 patients. The recommendation was made after seven international trials found that the steroids drugs can help seriously…

World Health Organization (WHO) Independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication has officially declared Nigeria and the African Region free of wild poliovirus. This marks the eradication of the second…

World Health Organization has said stamp of approval on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate would require a rigorous safety data review. This is in reaction to Russia’s announcement on Tuesday about approving a COVID-19 vaccine.…

World Health Organization (WHO) has said over $100bn is needed to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines. This is according to the Director-General of World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus who spoke during a virtual news…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said a number of potential vaccines that may be deployed in the treatment of COVID-19 are now in phase three clinical trials. Phase 3 trials are conducted to confirm and expand on safety and…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the coronavirus pandemic is ‘easily the most severe’ emergency that the agency has ever declared. On January 30, WHO declared coronavirus as a global emergency, as the death toll from the…

Congo’s Ministry of Health has declared the end of the world's second-largest Ebola outbreak in Northeast of the country on Thursday as no new cases were recorded after two full incubation periods of the deadly virus passed. The…