Tag: World Health Organization

President Joe Biden has informed Congress that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, 2023, as most of the world has returned to normalcy ...

Uganda has announced that the latest Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus is over. The outbreak ended in less than four months after the first case was confirmed in ...

The head of the World Health Organization(WHO) has disclosed that the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” due the coronavirus’ quick spread across the country and ...

Japan on Friday, December 30, 2022 started requiring COVID-19 tests for all passengers arriving from China as an emergency measure against surging COVID infections. According to the Health Ministry, Japan reported ...

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox after complains that the original name of the decades-old animal disease is discriminatory and racist. The United Nations health agency disclosed ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed profound shock and sadness over the killing of its polio field surveillance officer in Bentiu city in South Sudan. In a statement, WHO ...

Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has stated that government is aiming at using digitization to double its tax revenue mobilization in the next three years to about 28% of the ...

UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has intimated that the world "must never be caught unawares" by another pandemic, as he backed a new global surveillance network to detect emerging diseases. ...

The FAO and partners have published a New Handbook for Parliamentarians that provides practical guidance on transforming food systems and improving nutrition. The new handbook aims at providing lawmakers with ...