Tag: Covid-19
COVID-19 impacts access to medicine for non-communicable diseases – WHO report
The World Health Organization (WHO) says although COVID-19 is disappearing from view, access to medicines that treat Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDS) remain out of reach...
WHO urges China to be ‘transparent’ in sharing COVID-19 data
The World Health Organization (WHO) has, again, called on China to be ‘transparent’ in sharing COVID-19 data in efforts to determine the disease’s origins.
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UN chief urges clear commitment to rescue SDGs
Secretary-General António Guterres has urged UN Member States to bring a clear commitment to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by setting out their...
COVID-19 remains International health threat, WHO warns
World Health Organization (WHO) has again, warned that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and that it is not time to declare the...
Lake Chad reopening: UN official calls for humanitarian, devt efforts
The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms Joyce Msuya, has called for humanitarian, development, peace and stabilization efforts as the Lake Chad Basin...
Israel’s tourism sector to exceed $7.5bn revenue with new holy sites
Israel is set to exceed the 2022 four billion dollars revenue and pre-COVID-19 revenue of seven billion dollars from its tourism. Sector with more...
NYSC deploys 1,570 prospective corps members to Bauchi State
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has deployed 1,570 corps members to Bauchi State for the 2023 Batch A Stream 1 orientation exercises.
Alhaji Namadi...
Nigeria is still unprepared to effectively respond, manage future pandemics —- says Prof. Tomori
Prof. Oyewale Tomori, a foremost Nigerian virologist, has said that the COVID -19 pandemic clearly showed that Nigeria and the world at large were...
NCDC confirms 42 new cases of COVID -19
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed 42 additional COVID-19 infections in the country in two weeks, with Lagos State...
COVID-19: NCDC says travel restrictions did not have any public health benefits
The Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention Control (NCDC), has said that recent experiences in the country with the arrival of the COVID-19 omicron...