Health

This is according to Dr Collins Tabu, the head of Kenya's National Vaccines and Immunisation Programme, who spoke in Kitengela where President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the dispatch of vaccines...

The vaccines came in two batches; 240,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses that were delivered in the morning and 102,960 Pfizer vaccine doses which were received late on Wednesday. The two consignments...

The new figure brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 155,657. The health agency made the announcement yesterday night while giving the daily report on its...

Two of these countries are in the East African Community - they are Burundi and Tanzania. The regional bloc is expected to receive some 39 million doses of the Covid-19...

Pfizer and Moderna have prepared written testimonies to the US Congress, promising to boost vaccine production in the coming months, as the country’s death toll from Covid-19 recently exceeded 500,000....

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed 645 new cases of COVID-19 in the FCT and 19 other States. According to the new figure, the country’s total number...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced the figure on Friday night in a tweet via its official Twitter handle. NCDC said Lagos and Kaduna States recorded 642 and...

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, headed by the Vice Minister, Mitoha Ondo'o Ayekaba, assisted by the WHO technical coordinator, Alain Poy, today presented the epidemiological reports of Covid-19...

"As predicted, a second wave of desert locusts is coming to East Africa driven by the recently witnessed abundant rains. The affected countries are now well prepared to contain the...

This idea of a race with winners and losers may be a handy metaphor, but it may also be counterproductive. In any race, there is one winner and a whole...