The World Health Organisation has called for a globally enhanced regulation of the digital marketing of alcohol. The agency made this disclosure in a release published on its website on Tuesday. It added that alcohol consumption was capable of robbing young people of their lives and potential. According to WHO, the rise in sophisticated online…
A second Global COVID-19 Summit will be held next month, the White House and its partners have announced, in an effort to bolster cooperation to end the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for future health threats. In a joint statement on Monday, the United States, Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal said the virtual conference on May…
Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday presented N200 million cheques to 37 beneficiaries of the special interest free loan to film makers under the State’s Creative Initiative (LACI), an initiative of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture. Governor Sanwo-Olu disclosed that a Nine-Man committee…
Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju Nigeria has one of the highest infant and neonatal death rates in the world. In a strong push to effect needed change, participants at the maiden Obijackson Women and Children Hospital (OWCH) funded Newborn Respiratory Support Workshop have called for immediate and broad adoption of a national neonatal respiratory…
As Russia continues attacks in Ukraine, global health leaders warn that “certainly there’ll be a rise in Covid-19.” Some activists in the region already have seen a spread of the disease. “Some of our volunteers got infected with Covid while helping manage refugees at the border or refugee centers. And because in both Moldova and…
Africa’s top public health agency has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer to bring supplies of the pharmaceutical firm’s Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 pills to the continent. “The memorandum of understanding is with the legal office at the AU [African Union]”, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told…
Boris Johnson confirmed the move as he unveiled his government’s plan for “living with COVID” in the Commons.Vaccinated contacts of positive cases will no longer be asked to test for seven days and there will no longer be a legal requirement for close contacts who are not vaccinated to self-isolate. Contact tracing will also come…
Germany will end most government restrictions to fight the coronavirus pandemic in March, according to a draft official plan seen by AFP on Monday, as new infections rates ease. Two years after the start of the outbreak in Germany, curbs to prevent contagion will begin falling away. As a first step, contact restrictions will ease…
Nigeria and five other African countries have been chosen to begin production of COVID-19 vaccines, with the continent having had limited access to jabs. “Today I’m delighted to announce the first six African countries that will receive technology from the hub to produce their own mRNA vaccines: Egypt, Kenya Nigeria, Senegal South Africa, and Tunisia,”…
