The Director-General of Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has been nominated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the new Assistant Director-General...
As COVID-19 case numbers in Africa climb faster than all earlier peaks, new and faster spreading variants are fuelling the continent’s surging third wave. Cases have...
World Health Organization (WHO) has assigned simple, easy to say and remember labels for key variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using letters of...
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2021, WHO has joined the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a partnership aimed at preventing, halting and reversing the degradation...
30 March – The report of the international team on their Wuhan field visit, from 14 January to 10 February, was published today as WHO Director-General Dr Tedros...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday, listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the first to receive emergency validation from...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has disclosed that Africa could become the next epicentre of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) outbreak. Brandnewsday reports that WHO representative...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) disclosed that people can not contract the COVID-19 from corpses of patients who died of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Brandnewsday reports...
The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) joined millions of health workers across the world to celebrates World Health Day. Brandnewsday reports that the day is a...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, QU Dongyu and Roberto Azevedo, Directors-General of WHO, FAO and WTO. 31 March 2020, Rome/Geneva – Millions of people around the world depend on...