Tag: outbreak

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, said the outbreak had spread across 14 local government areas ...

Africa CDC said Mr Kaseya also reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to coordinated action with partners to strengthen preparedness, surveillance and ...

Ms Fasawe noted that the FCT health system, in collaboration with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), ...

WHO has delivered 12 tonnes of emergency medical supplies to the DR Congo as the country battles its 16th Ebola ...

Nigeria was certified free of wild poliovirus in 2020, but outbreaks of a vaccine-derived variant remain a major concern in ...

In response to the outbreak, the State Ministry of Health recommended several preventive measures to avoid future occurrences

Mr Kaseya disclosed that Sierra Leone had reported its first two cases of Mpox, intensifying concerns over the virus’s spread ...

Mr Idris said this season typically runs from October to May, with May being the peak month. Outbreaks typically occur ...

NCDC made this known on Monday in its latest situation reports for week 41 spanning 7 to 13 October.

However, PREMIUM TIMES findings show that the cumulative suspected and death cases is lower than what is declared in the ...

This discovery contradicts the previous position of the National Correctional Service (NCoS) spokesperson, Abubakar Umar, who had declared correctional centres ...

The director of epidemiology, Mr Suleiman, said the state has activated appropriate measures to tackle the outbreak, noting that it ...

Over 20 people have died from the cholera outbreak in Lagos in recent weeks.

The ministry emphasised that there is danger in consuming unwholesome meat and other food of animal origin, especially those contaminated ...

Responding, the NCDC Director General, Jide Idris, promised that the agency would make judicious use of the equipment.

Diphtheria cases have been detected in 14 states, with Kano as the epicentre.

An official of the state government said the outbreak of the disease has reached an alarming level in the state

When compared to 196 suspected cases that were reported in the preceding week 12, NCDC said the new figure shows ...

The NCDC DG says that Nigerians are allowing transmission to continue in an unmitigated fashion which means that there is ...

The Bayelsa State Government has confirmed the outbreak.

This is the first time Nigeria will record less than 700 cases for five consecutive days since the country began ...

South Korea reported 166 new coronavirus cases as of Friday, of which 155 were domestic, prompting the re-imposition of tighter ...

On Tuesday, the total number of infections crossed 560,000, adding some 20,000 cases every day, with nearly 17,000 deaths linked ...

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