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The UN has  warned on Thursday that a “perfect storm” was brewing, as 23 million children missed out on basic childhood vaccines last year, as routine health services were hit worldwide by restrictions aimed at controlling Covid-19 and many…

A World Health Organisation (WHO) epidemiologist said she had been devastated to watch unmasked crowds singing and shouting at the Euro 2020 football final in London on Sunday, expressing concerns that it would spur COVID-19 transmission,…

The World Health Organisation (WHO), which is advising the International Olympic Committee in the run-up to the opening of the Tokyo Games later this month, is urging caution so as to stem the spread of the coronavirus, a senior WHO…

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), has said that Nigeria recorded a total of 10,027 cases of mild adverse events after Covid-19 vaccination. READ ALSO: 1.8m persons vaccinated so far- NPHCDA The…

World Health Organisation Director-General, Dr. Tedos Ghebreyesus, says smokers have up to a 50 per cent higher risk of developing severe diseases and death from COVID-19. READ ALSO: Smoking one cigarette a day harms smokers health…

Health authorities are reallocating around 75% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 1.7 million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses to other African countries to make sure they’re used before they expire, a UNICEF representative said on…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the next supplies of the AstraZeneca/Oxford jab will reach Côte d’Ivoire later this week. Six hundred thousand doses of the Covid-19 vaccine from the UN-partnered COVAX initiative arrived in…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries not to hoard surplus doses of Covid-19 vaccine, saying the world needed to come together to fight the pandemic. South Africa has recorded nearly half the…