19 January 2022 The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning to world leaders that the coronavirus pandemic “is nowhere near over”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned against the assumption that the newly dominant Omicron variant is significantly ...
15 February 2021 The Ebola virus claimed more than 11,300 lives in West Africa when it swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the 2013-2016 outbreak. Now there are concerns of a new outbreak of the virus with news of ...
29 September 2020| 11 Safar 1442| Anadolu Agency The World Health Organisation on Tuesday commented officially for the first time on the death toll from the novel coronavirus exceeding one million worldwide, with more than 33 million cases confirmed globally. WHO spokesperson ...
12 March 2020| 17 Rajab 1441| Arab News The EU will on Thursday assess the travel ban on Europe imposed by US President Donald Trump, European Council President Charles Michel said, adding: “Economic disruption must be avoided.” The tweet by Michel, ...
Cii Radio|Ayesha Ismail|14 May 2018|27 Shabaan 1439 The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday it was preparing for “the worst case scenario” in a fresh outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “We are very concerned, and we are ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail|05 April 2018| 18 Rajab 1439 The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNICEF called for international action in response to explosive hazards in Syria where at least 910 children were killed by explosive devices in 2017. “More than ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 08 December 2017| 19 Rabi ul Awal 1439 Almost 17 million babies live in areas where air pollution is at least six times higher than international limits, causing them to breathe toxic air and potentially risking their ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 26 October 2017| 05 Safar 1439 South Africa is one of nine countries which have been warned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be on high alert for the “black death” plague. The other eight countries at ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 16 October 2017| 25 Muharram 1439 World Health Organisation said on Friday it had received reports of an attack on medical facilities in eastern Syria that had destroyed a store containing more than 130,000 vaccine doses against ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 16 October 2017| 25 Muharram 1439 Some 32 per cent of cholera deaths in Yemen are children under the age of 15, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said yesterday. “Children under 15 represent 50 per cent of ...
