COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’, warns WHO chief
Delta variant has been now detected in 104 countries; the Alpha variant in 173; the…
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WHO officially declares China malaria-free
The “523 Project’’ a research programme launched in 1967, allowed Chinese Nobel Prize winner Tu…
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COVID-19 cases in Africa increase by 52% in one week — WHO
WHO says millions more COVID vaccines needed to be donated now to save lives
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COVID-19 cases drop for 7th week as Africa records high mortality-WHO
The steep increase in Africa is especially concerning, because it is the region with the…
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COVID-19: 90% of African countries to miss urgent vaccination goal
Just 2% of the continent’s nearly 1.3 billion people have received one dose and only…
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Smokers face 50% higher risk of developing COVID-19, other diseases – WHO
By Cecilia Ologunagba World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedos Ghebreyesus, says smokers have up…
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1.2m non-smokers die from exposure to tobacco smoke yearly- WHO
Moeti said this in her message to mark 2021 World No Tobacco Day with the…
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Africa urgently needs 20m second doses of COVID-19 vaccine – WHO
Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six…
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Long working hours cause 745,000 deaths – UN study
The WHO and ILO estimate that 398,000 people died from stroke and 347,000 from heart…
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Coronavirus: Pandemic grip keeps world in ‘perilous situation’, says WHO chief
The WHO chief said in Southeast Asia, however, COVID cases and deaths are increasing rapidly…
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