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August 02, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the COVID-19 pandemic might not be the last the world would witness, even as it called for sustained fight against the virus. WHO Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Walter...

July 02, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation said Friday that COVID-19 tests should be carried out in schools (even when no cases have been detected) to avoid the “harmful” effects of remote learning. Screenings in schools had previously only...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 02, (THEWILL) – The World Health Organisation has approved the emergency use of a COVID-19 jab made by Sinovac, paving the way for a second vaccine produced in China to be distributed among developing countries. Giving approval to the...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 17, (THEWILL) - Long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people around the world every year, according to estimates from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In joint research by the...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 28, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported the detection in over a dozen countries of a variant of COVID-19 feared to be contributing to rising coronavirus cases in India. The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 16, (THEWILL) - In the wake of several European countries pausing its roll-out,  the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is set to be reviewed by vaccine safety experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday. Cases arose in Europe of blood clots...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 13, (THEWILL) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have assured there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca's Covid-19 jab after several countries suspended roll out over blood clot fears. The WHO, which...