Health

The World Health Organization remains positive about fighting the coronavirus pandemic.This as infections rise to 20 million, with 750 000 deaths.New Zealand and Rwanda has successfully reduced the spread of the virus. Dr Tedros Adhanom […]

Charles Obi Odili, Director, Corporate Affairs The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has refuted claims by the erstwhile Chairman of the COVID-19 Palliatives Distribution Committee of the NDDC, High Chief Sobomabo Jackrich, that N6.25 billion […]

Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a Reuters tally shows, amid a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and […]

The head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that reported comments by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioning his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation from its work in […]

Cuba for the first time in 130 days on Sunday said there were no new domestic cases of Covid-19 as most of the country moved into the final phase of resuming normal activities with masks […]

Harvard-trained molecular biologist Professor Christian Happi is the driving force behind the fight against killer diseases on the African continent.Happi runs the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, one of the most […]

Iran has estimated that 25 million Iranians have contracted Covid-19 so far.The virus has so far killed close to 14 000 people, with a recorded 269 400 infections in the country with a population of […]

Covid-19 has killed four Kenyan health workers and infected 450, the health ministry said on Wednesday, as word emerged of a slew of cases in Kenya’s biggest maternity hospital, Reuters reports. „Health workers handling patients […]