The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that there were “worrying upward trends” in early epidemics in parts of Africa and Central and South America, warning that opening up global travel needed to be managed carefully. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus told Geneva journalists in a virtual on Wednesday. “Most countries are still in the […]

DELTA State branch of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, said weekend that it might be difficult to completely defeat the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, noting that people may have to live with it like other viruses such as HIV/AIDS.

Local transmission means that the virus is transmitted (from person to person) a country and not that someone who had travelled came in with the virus. It means that you have cases of people who got it from imported cases, like contacts of the index case (the Italian).

The COVID-19 epidemic cannot justify leaving migrants to drown or returning them to risk abuse in Libya, Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic said on Thursday. According to the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Libya office, Mijatovic’s comments came a day after some 51 rescued migrants were returned to Libya in spite of […]

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention plans to distribute a million COVID-19 test kits from next week to help the continent tackle a glaring shortfall in testing, its director, John Nkengasong, said Thursday. “There is a big gap on the continent on testing,” Nkengasong said at a weekly press conference at the African […]