Coronavirus: Libya records 5 new cases
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has detected five new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) out of 1,646 samples tested during the week of 21-26 May, the [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Senegal records 6 new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded six new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), all from community transmission and confirmed by tests carried out on 892 [...] Full text...
Senegalese health minister dismissed after 11 newborns die in hospital fire
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall on Thursday dismissed the Minister of Public Health and Social Action, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, less than 24 hours after [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Mauritius detects eight new positive cases
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities announced on Friday that they detected eight new positive cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing [...] Full text...
Eleven newborns die in hospital fire in Senegal
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Eleven newborns died in a fire outbreak last Wednesday evening in the neonatal department of the Mame Abdoul Aziz Sy hospital [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Mauritius records 14 new positive cases
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian health authorities announced on Thursday that 14 new positive cases of COVID-19 have been detected in the last 24 [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records six new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded six new cases of coronavirus, comprising one imported case and five cases resulting from community transmission.
These were confirmed [...] Full text...
WHO Director-General Tedros re-elected for second term
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - World Health Organization (WHO) Member States on Tuesday re-elected Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as Director-General [...] Full text...
Monkeypox outbreak can still be contained - WHO
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The monkeypox outbreak that has been reported in 16 countries and several regions of the world can still be contained and [...] Full text...
Libya attending the 75th session of the WHO General Assembly in Geneva
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A Libyan delegation is in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 75th session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) which started on Sunday.
Reports [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal reports two cases
MSA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegal reported two cases of coronavirus, all of them from community transmission and confirmed from 883 samples tested, the ministry of [...] Full text...
Libya has no case of monkeypox , says National Centre for Disease Control
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan National Centre for Disease Control announced on Sunday that no confirmed or suspected case of monkeypox has been recorded [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: WHO chief warns World Health Assembly: 'COVID-19 is not over”
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) told global health Ministers on Sunday that although reported COVID-19 cases and deaths [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Libya records six new cases
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has recorded six new cases of coronavirus out of 1,478 samples tested this week, the National Centre for Disease Control [...] Full text...
Mauritius launches five-year National Action Plan for Oral Health
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness on Friday launched a five-year National Action Plan for Oral Health (2022-2027), with the [...] Full text...
Mauritius to promulgate law on restrictions on tobacco products
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritius Ministry of Health and Wellness is to promulgate a law on restrictions on tobacco products, following its approval on [...] Full text...
First year of COVID-19 pandemic led to 4.5 million excess deaths - WHO
WA -Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has indicated in its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics to 2020 that the first year [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: WHO validates 11th vaccine for pandemic
WA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for "CONVIDECIA", a vaccine manufactured by CanSino Biologics, China, [...] Full text...
First polio outbreak in 30 years declared in Mozambique
MA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Health authorities in Mozambique declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus on Wednesday after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern [...] Full text...
Almost 1bln children, adults with disabilities denied acess to assistive technology - Report
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Geneva/New York (PANA) - A new report published Monday by WHO and UNICEF reveals that more than 2.5 billion people need one or more assistive [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Infections up slightly in Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The rate of COVID-19 infection in Libya last week averaged six cases per day, seen as an upward trend, despite the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Low uptake of vaccines in Libya
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's National Centre for Disease Control has announced that the country is among those with a low vaccination rate against COVID-19 [...] Full text...
Mauritius to conduct Nutrition Survey
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian Ministry of Health and Wellness will conduct the fourth Mauritius Nutrition Survey this year.
It will be in collaboration with [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Mauritius records six new positive cases
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities on Friday announced that they detected six new positive cases of COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, bringing [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records six new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded six new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, comprising one imported case and five cases resulting from community transmission confirmed by [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records four new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded four new coronavirus cases, all from community transmission and confirmed by tests carried out on 1,007 samples, the [...] Full text...
WHO calls for greater regulation of cross-border alcohol marketing
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Alcohol is increasingly being marketed across borders, with young people and heavy drinkers particularly targeted, the World Health Organization (WHO) said [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records four new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded four new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases from community transmission confirmed by tests carried out on 998 samples, the Ministry [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Libya records one new case
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya recorded one positive case out of 445 samples analyzed from 30 April to 5 May, the National Centre for Disease [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Mauritius reports two deaths
NA Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Ministry of Health and Quality of Life reported Friday two deaths attributed to coronavirus (COVID-19) between 28 April and [...] Full text...
Clean hands may make the difference between life and death – WHO report
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - When good hand hygiene and other infection prevention and control (IPC) measures are followed, 70 per cent of infections can be [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Tunisia records 13 new deaths in one week
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian ministry of Health within a week recorded 13 deaths linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and 519 new confirmed infections.
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Coronavirus: No new cases recorded in Senegal
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - No new case of coronavirus was recorded during the last 24 hours in Senegal, after tests carried out on 838 samples, [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: New pandemic death toll is 'a wake up call for action', says Human Rights Watch
MA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Human Rights Watch, says new figures that indicate that nearly 15 million people have died either directly or [...] Full text...
Senegal records two new coronavirus cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded two new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), all from community transmission and confirmed by tests carried out on 814 [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Pandemic death toll estimated at nearly 15 million
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 [...] Full text...
Guinea detects second case of Lassa fever
BBA Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The locality of Tokounou in the Prefecture of Guéckédou, about 900 km from Conakry, the Guinean capital, has recorded a second confirmed positive [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Record profits, while COVID treatment often ‘out of reach’ for the poor
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - While reported COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline, Omicron sub-variants are driving an increase in the Americas and Africa, the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records three new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded three new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), comprising one imported case and two cases resulting from community transmission confirmed [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records two new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded two new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, all imported and confirmed by tests carried out on 548 samples, the Ministry [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Centre calls for continued preventive measures against pandemic in Libya despite decline in infections
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's National Centre for Disease Control has recommended extending the implementation of prevention measures against the coronavirus (COVID-19) to workplaces, shopping [...] Full text...
WHO releases more than US$8 million for Sahel’s humanitarian response
MA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has released US$8.3 million from its Contingency Funding for Emergencies to assist the 10.6 million people in [...] Full text...
Baby formula industry must end 'misleading and aggressive’ online marketing: WHO
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The $55 billion baby formula industry must end exploitative online marketing targeting parents, particularly mothers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said [...] Full text...
Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on the rise in Africa, warns WHO
MA Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Africa is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year, the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Libya records 33 new cases from 18-24 April
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya recorded 33 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) between 18 and 24 April out of 1,519 samples tested, representing a positivity [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records two new cases
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded two new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, comprising one imported and one from community transmission confirmed by tests carried out [...] Full text...
Ebola vaccination begins in DRC after latest cases
MA Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday kicked off Ebola vaccination in Mbandaka, the capital city of Equateur Province [...] Full text...
UNICEF calls for renewed commitments to achieve polio-free world
MA Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced on Tuesday that it is seeking new commitments to fund its 2022-2026 Strategy at a virtual [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Investors in big pharma must ensure fair vaccine access for all countries - Amnesty International
MA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Investors in companies manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines must use their influence to ensure that supplies of urgently needed life-saving vaccines reach low- and lower-middle-income countries, Amnesty International said on Tuesday ahead [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Libyan health officials call for continued preventive measures despite decline in infections
BBA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has seen a slight decrease in confirmed coronavirus cases, but the National Centre for Disease Control is urging the public [...] Full text...