Health

CAIRO – 10 May 2020: Around a million people who came in contact with coronavirus positive patients are being tested, a presidential advisor said on Saturday, affirming that infected people...

The heads of state of African Union countries on April 2001 met in Nigeria and pledged to set a target of allocating at least 15 per cent of their annual...

Around 40 percent of the staff at Cairo's Al-Zahraa University Hospital have tested positive for coronavirus, an official has said. Thirty-eight staff members tested positive for COVID-19 out of a...

Nigeria on Saturday recorded 239 new cases of COVID-19. This brings the total number of cases in Nigeria to 4151. Lagos recorded the highest number of cases with 97 new...

As disease surveillance in Somalia needs to be scaled up during COVID-19, EWARN rolls out during this difficult time of responding to COVID-19, being ahead of the curve is the...

09 May, 2020: Current Covid-19 statistics released through a communiqué by the Ministry of Health and Wellness, this afternoon, indicate that Mauritius has recorded no new case over the last 24 hours. ...

Rabat – Morocco’s Ministry of Health confirmed 162 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases to 5,873 as of 10 a.m. May 9. While the number of new...

A recent report by the Ghana Health Service on Ghana's COVID-19 case count says 553 out of 1,300 workers of an undisclosed industrial facility have tested positive for the Coronavirus. Ghana’s total count...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – Aina, 24, is in the last month of her pregnancy. This alone would be reason for some anxiety. “As it’s first time, I’m worried,” Aina told UNFPA. But...

On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: ‘The world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox.’ The declaration marked the end of a disease...