This is the most upbeat assessment from the UN agency since it declared an international emergency in January 2020.

It urged the governments of Ekiti, Ondo and Imo States to clear unpaid salaries and wages of doctors and other health workers.

 Meanwhile the UK said it has identified a different strain of the infection traced to West Africa.

Moderna, which accepted $2.5bn in taxpayer money to develop its vaccine, had said in 2020 that it would not enforce Covid-related patents while the pandemic lasts.

The high-level individuals will oversee the country’s journey towards malaria elimination and ensure sufficient resources are available to achieve it.

It said there was no cause for alarm as no outbreak of the disease had been reported in Nigeria.

Jela’s Development Initiatives, JDI, a nonprofit organisation, supported by Liliane Fonds through The Leprosy Mission Nigeria, staged an Advocacy Walk on Saturday, August 13, 2022, for the mental health of

The WHO is also holding an open consultation for a new disease name for the virus.

More monkeypox deaths have been reported on the African continent this year than anywhere in the world.

The company faces about 38,000 lawsuits from consumers and their survivors claiming its talc products caused cancer.

The minister of health said President Buhari was doing his best to deliver health services to Nigerians.

Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever transmitted by rats and has the potential to cause tens of thousands of deaths.

White House physician, Kevin O’Connor, said Biden “has experienced no reemergence of symptoms, and continues to feel quite well.”

The White House has sought to underscore Biden’s ability to work through his illness.

The WHO label – a “public health emergency of international concern” – is designed to sound an alarm that a coordinated international response is needed

US President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19, the White House said Thursday.

Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease.

The WHO has reported two suspected cases of Marburg Virus Disease in Ghana

Nasarawa State in Nigeria’s North-Central has recorded six confirmed cases of monkeypox disease in two local government areas of the state since the outbreak of the disease in the country.

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged Nigeria’s commitment to an international legally binding instrument to reduce the menace of marine plastic pollution from land-based sources and activities. Buhari also congratulated the