Establish an enabling environment for prevention and preparedness Kampala, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | As COVID-19 continues to spread, in a given year there is a 2% chance of a new pandemic outbreak. Uganda was recently battling the Ebola Sudan pandemic. Whenever there are these outbreaks, countries go into a panic as …
Read More »WHO chief urges joint efforts to prevent future COVID-19-like pandemic
Kathmandu, Nepal | Xinhua | World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday called for countries to work together to ensure that a pandemic at the magnitude of COVID-19 shall not occur again in the near future. “The pandemic’s impact differs from country to country,” Ghebreyesus said at the …
Read More »500,000 DEAD: Candles lit at White House to mark grim COVID-19 record
Washington, US | XINHUA | Candles were lit at the White House South Portico at sunset Monday, a day on which the number of Americans who died from COVID-19 broke the staggering record of 500,000. “That’s more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth,” U.S. …
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