Geneva, Switzerland | XINHUA | The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday highlighted the role of young people in curbing the COVID-19 outbreak. “Although older people are at a higher risk of severe disease, younger people are at risk too. One of the challenges we face …
Read More »WHO chief says global COVID-19 cases double over past 6 weeks
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday that he will reconvene the Emergency Committee on Thursday to re-evaluate the COVID-19 pandemic, as global COVID-19 cases had doubled over the past six weeks. Saying that this Thursday (July 30) marks six months since …
Read More »COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate conflict, humanitarian crises: WHO chief
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate many issues the world is facing, such as years of conflict and other humanitarian crises, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday, while calling for continuity of essential health services. Although COVID-19 has rightly captured the world’s …
Read More »COVID-19: Countries Headed in the Wrong Direction- WHO
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Countries are not doing enough to stop the spread of COVID-19, this is according to the World Health Organization-WHO. This comes as the world is experiencing an increase in the number of cases that are reported daily globally. Data from WHO shows that by Monday …
Read More »WHO launches initiative to help 1.3 bln people quit smoking
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it’s launching an initiative to help 1.3 billion tobacco-users worldwide kick the habit during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco will help people freely access the resources they need to quit tobacco, …
Read More »HIV response is still failing children- Byanyima
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The HIV response for children has fallen behind despite great progress made since the early days of the epidemic. This is according to the latest report on the progress towards the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS-Free targets, released as part of the ongoing AIDS-2020 …
Read More »Countries taking piecemeal approach to COVID face long, hard road ahead
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that some countries battling the COVID-19 pandemic who have been taking a “fragmented approach” to suppressing the deadly virus, face a long, hard road ahead. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the regular coronavirus press briefing …
Read More »COVID-19 pandemic not even close to being over- WHO
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned. Speaking on the eve of the grim milestone, Dr Tedros called for …
Read More »Ebola outbreak defeated in DRC after almost two years
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC has been declared free of Ebola Virus Disease by the World Health Organisation almost two years since the Ebola outbreak was declared in the country. The Ebola outbreak which began in August 2018 in eastern DRC, …
Read More »Uganda’s COVID-19 Cases Rise to 821
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s COVID-19 cases have risen to 821 after 16 cases tested positive from samples that were tested on Wednesday. The positive cases were picked from over 3,000 samples that were tested from different testing centres. Five of the positive cases were picked from points of …
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