This comes as 1,427,370 persons have been displaced by floods with 18,093 suspected cholera cases.

Passengers from Uganda have been placed on a 21-day watchlist.

It stressed that stringent safe routine protocol are always followed before any human vaccines are administered.

More than 800,000 people in one district in Wuhan were told to stay at home until 30 October.

Describing the global response to the pandemic as discriminatory, he said the world must not allow the serious public health failure to happen again.

The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in revenue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmaker’s top-selling product.

WHO said the economic burden of physical inactivity was significant.

The claim was made made by the organisation’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti.

It noted that the medicine has caused the death of 66 children in Gambia.

The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency has commenced outbreak response campaigns in 12 affected northern States.

According to WHO’s director, so far 63 cases have been confirmed including 29 deaths.

Uganda has confirmed a case of the Sudan ebolavirus in Mubende district in the central part of the country.

She said some clinicians tend to treat malaria when children have recurrent fever before thinking of cancer.

This is the most upbeat assessment from the UN agency since it declared an international emergency in January 2020.

It urged the governments of Ekiti, Ondo and Imo States to clear unpaid salaries and wages of doctors and other health workers.

 Meanwhile the UK said it has identified a different strain of the infection traced to West Africa.

Moderna, which accepted $2.5bn in taxpayer money to develop its vaccine, had said in 2020 that it would not enforce Covid-related patents while the pandemic lasts.

The high-level individuals will oversee the country’s journey towards malaria elimination and ensure sufficient resources are available to achieve it.

It said there was no cause for alarm as no outbreak of the disease had been reported in Nigeria.

Jela’s Development Initiatives, JDI, a nonprofit organisation, supported by Liliane Fonds through The Leprosy Mission Nigeria, staged an Advocacy Walk on Saturday, August 13, 2022, for the mental health of