Tag: Ebola

An official said without extra funding, it will be even harder to defeat Ebola amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 cases on the continent have doubled in the past six weeks.

Available statistics for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) show that non-availability of water, sanitation and hygiene continues to haunt our development efforts ...

International health agencies have expressed concerned about the growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"The latest outbreak, DRC’s 11th, was declared on June, 1, 2020 after a cluster of cases was detected in Mbandaka ...

"...unless countries take dramatic steps to curb zoonotic contagions, global outbreaks like COVID-19 will become more prevalent."

“The good thing about this test is that it takes only thirty minutes and can be administered by anyone, anywhere, ...

Ebola outbreak had been reported in the city of Mbandaka, located in the DRC’s northwest

The country is also battling a measles outbreak and the equally deadly COVID-19.

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The commissioner said Lagos residents have nothing to be afraid of as the staff at the isolation centres are very ...

In 2018, there were 213 million malaria cases and 360,000 related deaths in the African region, accounting for over 90 ...

As the world combats COVID-19, Nigeria has additional health burden in other diseases such as Lassa fever.

The announcement on Friday came just days before the country's largest-ever outbreak was expected to be declared over.

The CMD said the hospital has always collaborated with the state government in epidemic periods like the Ebola, Lassa fever, ...

The envoy says Cuba will be “attentive to the request” but said no such request had been made “at the ...

To check misinformation and fake news about coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has exposed 10 myths about the viral ...

Mr Abubakar called on the federal government to be proactive in its approach to the coronavirus

Coronavirus, officially named COVID-19, broke out in Wuhan in Hubei province of China in December.

Nigeria is also faced with battling the Lassa fever outbreak.

New confirmed cases of Ebola and deaths are still being reported in the DRC

The country registered additional 59 new human causalities from the 2,150 deaths that were reported as of October 13.

Various events were held across the world during the week ahead of the commemoration of the World AIDS Day on ...

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, says the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ...

Since the outbreak last year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there have been 2,997 cases with 893 survivors.