28-07-22 Yaum Un Jadeed With Zahir Bassa
Yaum Un Jadeed – UKZN medical student attends World Health Organization’s high-level meeting in Geneva With Guest Mohamed Suleman Listen to this by clicking here. ...
WHO warning amid Europe case records
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 ...
Ebola virus resurfaces in West Africa
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 ...
WHO comments on COVID-19 as death toll tops 1 million
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 ...
EU warns against ‘Economic disruption’ after Trump’s Europe travel ban
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, ...
WHO preparing for ‘worst case scenario’ in DR Congo Ebola outbreak
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 ...
Close to 1,000 children killed by explosives in Syria in 2017
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 ...
Millions of babies, mostly in South Asia, risk brain damage from breathing toxic air, UNICEF warns
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 ...
WHO warns SA to be on high alert for ‘black death’ plague
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 ...
WHO says attack on Syria vaccine store leaves children at risk
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 ...