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The World Health Organization on Friday approved the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use the first Chinese jab to receive the WHO’s green light. The UN health agency signed off on the two-dose vaccine, which is already being…

South Africa said Tuesday it would offer its doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine to the African Union (AU) after scrapping their use due to efficacy concerns. The country suspended its vaccine rollout — meant to begin with the…

Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday, as tests came back positive for the virus after at least three people died and four fell ill in the southeast - the first resurgence of the disease there since the world’s worst outbreak in…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) have asked wealthy countries to share COVID-19 vaccines with poorer nations once they inoculate their health workers and other vulnerable groups.…

A WHO expert sent to China to probe the coronavirus hit out at US intelligence on Covid-19 as his team headed home with few answers about the origin of a pandemic that was forcing more clampdowns in some of the hardest-hit parts of the…

Facebook on Monday said it is ramping up efforts to stem the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, spread facts, and figure out who might be wary of getting the jab. The move includes banning groups that repeatedly spread…

MTV Base, organizers of the MTV Africa Music Awards has postponed the event indefinitely. The ceremony was scheduled to hold in Kampala, Uganda on February 2021. In an e-mail sent to The Punch, organizers of the award said that…

As part of activities to mark the 2021 World Cancer Day, the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) on Thursday launched an initiative aimed at addressing severe disruptions to cancer services amid the pandemic.…

Africa will receive nearly 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX in February 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) African region said on Thursday.  “Africa has watched other regions start COVID-19 vaccination campaigns from…

The World Health Organization mission probing the origins of Covid-19 in China was going "very well", one of its members said Tuesday, as the team visited an animal disease control centre in the city where the first cases were reported.…