Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization( WHO) Regional Director for Africa, speaks at a press

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include WHO Regional director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the Ivory Coast Health Minister Pierre

".... Regional director Matshidiso Moeti said the health body was" humbled, horrified and heartbroken" by the

Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organisation's Africa director." For Africa the worst is yet to come as

.... Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said: “ The potential for the

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: A health worker talks to her colleagues as they prepare to receive the AstraZeneca/ Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against coronavirus disease( COVID-19) at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya March 5, 2021.... REUTERS/ Monicah Mwangi/ File Photo KINSHASA( Reuters)-A third wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa has stabilised and the continent’s slow vaccination drive has picked up pace, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. Som

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadCONAKRY( Reuters)-Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Monday.It marks the first time that the deadly disease has been identified in West Africa.... There have been 12 major Marburg outbreaks since 1967, mostly in southern and eastern Africa. Guinea’s new case was first identified last week, just two months after the country was declared fr

The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that emerged in early October in North Kivu province and infected 11 people and killed six. Congo declared its 13th outbreak of the disease on 8 October in Beni in the east of the country, prompting fears of a repeat of a 2018-2020 epidemic that killed nearly 2, 300 people in the same region, the second-highest toll recorded in the disease’s history.“ My warm congratulations to health workers in the health zone of Beni wh

The Ivory Coast is vaccinating against Ebola after recording its first case of the killer disease in nearly 30 years.An 18-year-old Guinean woman tested positive for the illness last week, health minister Pierre N' Gou Demba told state TV station RTI. Officials said the woman arrived in the Ivory Coast on Wednesday having travelled by road from the city of Labe in her home country. She was treated at an intensive care unit at a hospital in Abidjan, where she arrived complaining of fever.... “ T