“Angles” is a name one would hardly associate with the COVID-19 burial teams, but in greater Masaka sub-region, southern Uganda, they are known as such It all started in Kyambogo village Lwankoni sub-county in Kyoteera district where the team had gone to conduct a safe and dignified burial of a dec»»»

Africa has escaped the "exponential" rise in coronavirus cases seen elsewhere probably due to low population density and a hot and humid climate, the United Nations health agency said. Africa has recorded 34,706 deaths from 1,439,657 cases, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally on Friday»»»

The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad - a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan - one from South Darf»»»

The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad – a week after the UN health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan – one from South Darfur»»»

Access to a vaccine should be rapid, affordable, and equitable As populations around the globe grow increasingly anxious to return to work and to school, the race to develop a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine is moving forward at breakneck speed. At present, a dozen countries are working to deve»»»

India reported the most new cases worldwide in the past week, pushing global tally by 1 percent, the UN agency says. India reported the largest number of new COVID-19 cases of any country in the past week, its nearly half a million new infections pushing the global tally up by 1 percent, the World »»»

GENEVA (Reuters) - India reported the most new COVID-19 cases of any country in the past week, its nearly half a million fresh infections pushing the global tally up by 1 percent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Overall global new deaths in the past seven days fell by 3% compar»»»

NNA - Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with about 21 million confirmed cases in 188 countries. More than 750,000 people have lost their lives. Cases of the disease are continuing to surge in many countries, while others which had apparent success in suppressing initial outbrea»»»

Hospitals in Madagascar have been struggling to cope with a surge of Covid-19 cases, while the president has been promoting an unproven product he says can cure the disease despite the World Health Organization (WHO) warning against using untested remedies. Cases have quadrupled in the past month i»»»

Cape Town - Africa now has just over 1 million people infected with the coronavirus. The continent reached the grim figure on Thursday as the virus continues to spread unabated across the continent. South Africa remains the epicentre of the outbreak, accounting for over 50% of infections in Africa.»»»

The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the Covid-19 as ‘first wave’, not just seasonal. Dr Margaret Harris, a spokesperson of WHO, came up with the information on Tuesday at a scheduled virtual press conference, reports UN news. The UN health agency said the Covid-19 virus is likely not »»»

When patients quit cigarettes at the King Hussein Cancer Center’s smoking clinic they are asked to be patient with their children. Often their offsprint have been exposed to so much secondhand smoke that they have become addicted, too. “For every four cigarettes their parent has smoked, the child h»»»

A team of 10 medical professionals from Chongqing boarded a charter plane on Wednesday morning and departed for Palestine to help the state contain the COVID-19 pandemic. By June 9, there were 653 confirmed cases in Palestine, including 558 recovered cases and five deaths, according to the World He»»»

The coronavirus could kill 150,000 people in Africa in a year unless urgent action is taken, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) modelling study that says nearly 250 million people will be infected. Authors of the research, which was published on Friday in the journal BMJ Global Health, »»»

(CNN)The US Embassy in Tanzania, claiming that many hospitals in the main city Dar es Salaam have been overwhelmed in recent weeks, contends the risk of contracting Covid-19 there is "extremely high." Wednesday's health alert notes that the Tanzanian government has not released any data on Covid-19»»»

Many African governments are now facing a difficult choice--allowing the virus to spread could kill millions, but so could allowing economic collapse. Rabat – British banker and Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Peter Sands has called for “decisive actio»»»

closeVideoGet all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. It has become one of the most controversial words in the world: hydroxychloroquine. For several weeks, the primarily anti-malaria drug has been touted by President Trump and others in the media as»»»

African countries have so far recorded 6555 confirmed coronavirus cases and 244 deaths, according to the covid-19-africa.sen.ovh website. According to the latest tally, the breakdown remains fluid as many countries across the continent imposed a range of prevention and containment measures against »»»

Some African countries will have more than 10,000 coronavirus cases by the end of April, health officials projected Thursday, as the continent least equipped to treat serious infections has an “enormous gap” in the number of ventilators and other critical items. Coronavirus cases in some African co»»»

Sky News Arabia (SNA) has launched a new interactive news show on Facebook live dedicated to examining the facts surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, amid widespread misinformation about the illness online. Launched as part of a partnership between Sky News Arabia and social media giant»»»

RIYADH — Sky News Arabia (SNA) has announced the launch of a new daily interactive Live news show, dedicated to examining the facts surrounding the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The new interactive show is the result of a partnership between Sky News Arabia and Facebook, which enables audiences t»»»

So far, airline companies in the Middle East, which serves as a connection hub for east-west travel, have incurred losses amounting to $100 million following the outbreak of the Coronavirus, International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced yesterday. “Air ticket sales too, from, and within »»»

So far, airline companies in the Middle East, which serves as a connection hub for east-west travel, have incurred losses amounting to $100 million following the outbreak of the Coronavirus, International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced yesterday. “Air ticket sales too, from, and within »»»

Coronavirus Covid-19 has now spread to six continents - only Antarctica is currently free of infections - and has triggered more than 85,000 cases of respiratory illness, of which nearly 3,000 have been fatal. The spread of the disease, which first emerged in Hubei province in central China at the »»»

The World Health Organization on Friday raised its global risk assessment of the new coronavirus to its highest level after the epidemic spread to sub-Saharan Africa and caused financial markets to plunge. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the risk was being raised to "very high" because of»»»