COVID-19 pandemic

United Nations agencies has revealed that over 122 million people are currently facing hunger across the world due to weather shocks, conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic. The agencies that include the Food and Agriculture Organisation;…

The World Health Organization has advocated for more funding of the health sector in Nigeria to meet the 2001 target of 15 per cent Abuja Declaration on improvement of health sector. READ ALSO:WHO celebrates 75th anniversary, advocates…

The Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Prof Adekunle Ajayi, has urged everyone to take part in  the process of curtailing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. READ ALSO: Ekiti kicks-off second phase of COVID-19…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lamented the inability of governments across the globe, to provide mental health services for people, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when they needed mental health support the most. READ…

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says not less than 1 in 6 young Nigerians aged 15-24 often feel depressed or have little interest in doing things, or are worried, nervous or anxious as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. READ…

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the Group of Seven countries to help finance the World Health Organization’s programme to boost COVID-19 testing, diagnostics and vaccines, the presidency said on Sunday. Ramaphosa, who…

The Gatumba border in Burundi connected to the town of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reopens from Tuesday following a long period of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Minister of Public Health explained this…

The raging state of the COVID-19 pandemic in India is a wake-up call for Africa that its governments and citizens must not let their guards down, the African Union’s disease control agency warned on Thursday. African nations generally do…

Strikes, unemployment, soaring prices and shortages of basic foodstuffs in Algeria, a boiling social situation is now added to a deep economic crisis caused by the fall in oil revenues and aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic.…

The outgoing Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva has retained a positive come back as Cape Verdeans are trusting him to turn around the archipelago's economy, which has been heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The people showed…