Tag: WHO
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Covid-19 pandemic likely to settle as seasonal flu this year: WHO
Covid-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed more than seven million deaths globally, may likely end up being as public health emergency of international concern’ this year and pose a seasonal flu threat, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. “I’m confident that this year we will be able to say that Covid-19 is over…
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Floods raise cholera risk even as cases decline in Africa: WHO
Brazzaville (Congo) – As weekly cholera cases in the affected African countries decline, heavy flooding due to seasonal rains and tropical cyclones in southern Africa are raising the risk of the disease spreading and threatening to undermine outbreak control efforts, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Newly-confirmed cholera cases fell to 2,880 in the…