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Covid, WHO announces that the number of deaths remains stable: more than 66,000 this week, for a total since the start of the pandemic of almost 4.4 million

The WHO reports a first case of Marburg virus in Guinea, just two months after the Ebola crisis was declared over

Africa has recorded a 43% week-on-week rise in COVID-19 deaths, as hospital admissions increase rapidly and countries face shortages in oxygen and intensive care beds

Ethiopia today officially launched a preventive oral cholera vaccination campaign targeting 2 million people aged 1 year and above in Tigray region in the north of the country to avert a potential outbreak

Cabo Delgado (Mozambique) is experiencing dramatic weeks: repeated and violent attacks by Islamists have led to a humanitarian crisis with over 1.2 million people in need of urgent health care

Hand hygiene is one of the most effective actions you can take to reduce the spread of pathogens and prevent infections, including the COVID-19 virus," the World Health Organization says on its website on the occasion of the World Hand…

WHO authorises two versions of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine: the two types of Oxford-created drug will now be available for global launch through the Covax Facility

Vaccination against polio in Chad. More than 3.3 million children have been vaccinated against polio in Chad in a just-concluded immunization drive – one of the largest of its kind in the African region this year as campaigns that were…

Chegutu, Zimbabwe – Thanks to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, 54 407 people in Chegutu received free cholera vaccination. The five-day oral cholera vaccination campaign was conducted by the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) and Chegutu…

The eleventh Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has officially ended.