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Update COVID-19 24 September 2020

24 September 2020 — Ten (10) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2158 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to four thousand, seven hundred, and eighty-nine (4789). To date, three thousand, and fifty (3050)...

“It weighs you down,” Congo COVID-19 survivor recounts

Yaffa Fatoumata hoped that the fever and the sore throat she was suffering were just signs of a passing flu. However, when the symptoms persisted, the26-year-old legal assistant in Republic of the Congo’s Ministry of Communication decided to get test...

Overcoming COVID-19 at 99 years-old in Guinea

Conakry – When Bagama Guehara walked out of Donka Hospital in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, on 7 July this year, leaning on a walking stick for support, she was met with a rapturous applause from the medical staff and fellow patients. At 99, Guehara is...

Surviving COVID-19 and fighting stigma in Uganda

Kampala – When 30-year-old Ugandan entrepreneur Laura Nagasha returned from a holiday in Dubai in March, Uganda was yet to register any confirmed cases of COVID-19, and Dubai was not on the list of high-risk countries for the virus. Nagasha was tired...

Social, environmental factors seen behind Africa’s low COVID-19 cases

Brazzaville – COVID-19 transmission in Africa has been marked by relatively fewer infections, which have been on the decline over the past two months, owing to a variety of socio-ecological factors as well as early and strong public health measures t...

Rwanda’s response to COVID-19 brings out the need to prepare and learn from practice

Wash your hands, wear your face mask and practice physical distancing. These COVID-19 safety measures by the World Health Organization (WHO) will probably go down in the World’s history as the most repeated and translated words of the year 2020. Si...

Arua Regional Referral Hospital Medical Team Learns Quick Valuable Lessons from COVID-19 Response

Kampala, 24 September 2020: - For many health workers of Arua Regional Referral Hospital (ARRH), 24th April 2020 is a day they will always remember with some trepidation. On that day, the hospital received its first COVID-19 patient and the health wo...

Studying Nursing just got a lot easier”, says student nurse, College of Nursing and Midwifery, Maiduguri

Maiduguri, 24 September, 2020 - As part of its health system strengthening in the insurgency-affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in the north-east Nigeria, World Health organization is touching millions of lives by rehabilitating, recon...

Update COVID-19 23 September 2020

23 September 2020 — Forty-one (41) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2273 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to four thousand, seven hundred, and seventy-nine (4779). To date, two thousand, nine hundred...

WHO supports government to integrate COVID-19 case finding into TB surveillance activities.

Abuja 22 September 2020 - “During a tuberculosis outreach in my community, one of the team members insisted I take a test as he said I already have symptoms. As I was about to undergo the test, the DSNOs suggested I also undergo a COVID-19 test becau...

WHO Representative urges Borno, the last polio sanctuary, to remain vigilant despite Certification

Maiduguri, 23 September, 2020 - The World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Nigeria, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo has congratulated Borno, the last wild polio virus (WPV) sanctuary in Africa, for making Nigeria and Africa proud. The WR made...

Update COVID-19 22 September 2020

22 September 2020 — Sixteen (16) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 1631 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to four thousand, seven hundred, and thirty-eight (4738). To date, two thousand, nine hundred,...

How to certify a region as wild polio-free: Interview with Professor Rose Leke

After the World Health Assembly passed a resolution to eradicate polio worldwide in 1988, the Global Certification Commission led the way in establishing a formal process for certifying regions polio-free, asking each of the six WHO regions to set up...

DRC: The great lengths that polio vaccinators go to reach every last child

By foot, boat and bicycle, thousands of volunteer vaccinators in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) go to extraordinary efforts, sometimes at personal risk, to help eradicate polio. As the canoe, made of wood worn smooth from its many voyages, r...

Update COVID-19 21 September 2020

21 September 2020 — Eleven (11) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 1448 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to four thousand, seven hundred, and twenty-two (4722). To date, two thousand, nine hundred, and...