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A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has alleged that China’s official data is under-representing the true impact of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, criticizing its “very narrow” definition of COVID deaths. More countries are imposing travel restrictions on visitors from China in the wake of a steep rise …

If confirmed, these would be the first such infections recorded in the country, and only the second in West Africa. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. “The health authorities are on the ground investigating the situation and …

Outbreak in an agricultural area comes as impoverished country battles COVID-19 and food shortages. North Korea has reported an outbreak of an unidentified gastrointestinal disease in the country’s southwest as it continues to battle a wave of COVID-19 that has further strained its already creaky health system. The Korean Central …

Kim Jong Un orders the military to stabilise the supply of medicines in Pyongyang amid the outbreak of COVID-19, KCNA reports. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the military to stabilise the supply of medicines in Pyongyang days after announcing a lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19, according …

The World Health Organization has confirmed eight more countries have reported cases of mystery hepatitis in children.    It brings the total number of countries with cases to 20.  Globally, 228 children have been sickened with an unusual form of liver disease and another 50 suspected cases are being probed.   One …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed another outbreak of Ebola in Africa.   WHO sounded the alarm after a second person died from the deadly disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.   This marks the 14th breakout of the disease that the country has seen since 1976, with WHO beginning …

The World Health Organisation has revealed that the cholera outbreak in the country in 2021 is the highest in recent times.   According to the Organisation, Nigeria recorded over 100,000 suspected cases of cholera in 2021.   Speaking at training on oral cholera vaccine request and campaign planning on Monday, …

The Chinese capital started testing all residents of Chaoyang, a bustling district home to the business center and foreign embassies, on Monday morning, in the first of three rounds of testing to be conducted over a five-day period. Residents and office workers formed long lines at makeshift testing centers throughout …