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As COVID-19 becomes routine, Africa readies for next crisis

The World Health Organization’s Africa director said that the continent is preparing for the next health crisis by strengthening gaps in health systems found in the continent's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

WHO: Ugandan Ebola outbreak 'rapidly evolving' after 1 month

A top World Health Organization official says Uganda’s Ebola outbreak is “rapidly evolving” a month after the disease was reported in the East African country

The Independent UK

Ebola strikes again as country records first death in three years and outbreak declared

The WHO's Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti said it is the first time in more than a decade that Uganda is recording the Ebola Sudan strain and that they are working closely to investigate the source of the outbreak

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WHO launches drive to fight bacterial meningitis in Africa

The World Health Organization says it is launching a $1.5 billion campaign, hopefully including a new vaccine, to eliminate outbreaks of bacterial meningitis across Africa by 2030

The Independent UK

Ghana declares first outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus

Ghana Health Service is working to reduce risks of virus spreading, including isolation of all identified contacts.

Al Jazeera

Monkeypox outbreak needs a united response, says WHO Africa

The World Health Organization’s Africa office says the continent's 54 countries must be part of a united global fight against monkeypox, as countries in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere respond to unusual outbreaks of the disease

The Independent UK

Ebola alert: Second patient dies in days - WHO warns 'time is NOT on our side'

Genetic testing showed an infection confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week was a new "spillover event", a transmission from an infected animal, and not linked to the last outbreak, the World Health Organization said

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Ebola hits Democratic Republic of Congo, again

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s health authorities have declared a new Ebola virus outbreak in Equateur Province on Monday - its third since 2018. With help from the World Health Organization, it has identified more than 100 contact cases.

Radio France Internationale

Ebola outbreak: WHO issues warning as second patient dies from deadly disease

This is the 14th Ebola outbreak that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has seen since 1976, and follows another outbreak just four months ago

Bristol Post

Ebola outbreak: WHO warns time isn't on our side after man, 31, dies of disease

Ebola has struck again in the Congo with the death of a 31-year-old man in Mbandaka sparking fears that the country is "playing catch up" in the latest outbreak

Daily Mirror

Up to 65% of Africans have had COVID, far more than thought

The World Health Organization said that up to 65% of people in Africa have been infected with the coronavirus and estimates the number of actual cases may have been nearly 100 times more than those reported

The Independent UK

800 million Africans may have had COVID-19, WHO says

In Africa only one in almost 100 COVID-19 cases may have been detected and about two thirds of the continent’s inhabitants may have been infected with the disease, the World Health Organization said.

Tribune News Service

WHO Africa’s 1st woman leader helps continent fight COVID

Small in stature, big in presence, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti is the first woman to lead the World Health Organization’s Africa office, the capstone of her trailblazing career in which she has overcome discrimination in apartheid South Africa to become one of the world’s top health administrators

The Independent UK

WHO Africa's 1st woman leader helps continent fight COVID

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COVID pandemic’s ‘acute phase’ could end by midyear: WHO

WHO head Tedros says acute phase of pandemic could end by middle of the year if 70 percent of the world gets jabbed.

The Independent UK

Africa moving toward control of COVID-19 says WHO director

The World Health Organization’s Africa director Matshidiso Moeti says Africa is moving to the “control phase” of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased vaccination rates will be crucial in helping the continent live with the disease

The Guardian - UK

Africa transitioning out of pandemic phase of Covid, WHO says

UN body also says continent’s case numbers may have been seven times higher than official data suggests

The Guardian - AU

Covid news: Spain drops mandatory use of face masks outdoors; UK reports another 66,638 daily cases – as it happened

Face coverings still required in indoor public spaces in Spain; UK records 66,638 daily infections and 206 Covid-linked deaths

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