At least 140 people ( case fatality ratio 2%) have died of Cholera in Cameroon since the disease re-emerged in the country last year. According to the Prime Minister on Wednesday, more than 7,000 cases have been reported since Read More
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A new report by the United Nations has warned of a surge in cases of Measles globally, highlighting vaccine reinforcement as the only way to curb the spread of the disease.The Coronavirus pandemic disrupted Read More
The Democratic Republic of Congo has reported a new case of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in a city in its northwestern region, four months after the end of the country’s last outbreak.According to Read More
On Sunday, March 20, Malawi will launch a nationwide campaign to vaccinate kids against Polio after a case was recorded in February, the first in the country since 1992.The Southwestern African country secured 6.8 million doses of Read More
Malawi has recorded an outbreak of the Wild Poliovirus in the country’s capital Lilongwe after a three-year-old girl was reported to have developed the virus investigated to be similar to a strain circulating in Read More
German pharmaceutical company, BioNTech has finalized plans to establish vaccine factories in Africa in order to increase the availability of the vaccine in Africa.The company would ship containers fitted with the equipment necessary to Read More
Back in November 2021, a UK based nurse was admitted to Intensive Care after contracting the coronavirus. According to the Sun, 37-year-old Monica Almeida was placed on a ventilator after her condition deteriorated. However, Almeida recounts Read More
The Omicron coronavirus variant has been detected in at least 19 countries since November 24.On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the global risk from the spread of Omicron was “Read More
According to a report from UNICEF, which analysed 115 million confirmed COVID-19 cases from 105 countries, people under 20 account for 16 percent of reported Covid-19 cases.Now more than 100 countries around the world have extended their COVID-19 vaccination Read More
The United Nation’s fund for children, UNICEF, is predicting an “imminent shortfall” of up to 2.2 billion of the single-use syringes used for Covid-19 vaccination, a report that poses a huge problem for the vaccination Read More