Category: Health Care

Global COVID-19 (total) cases, deaths and vaccinations to date• Globally, the number of new weekly cases and deaths have continued to decline since a peak in January 2022.• Numbers of new cases increased in past week.• At the regional level, the number…

Maputo – “I came to take the COVID-19 booster dose and brought my baby for (childhood routine) immunization,” says Cacilda Manjate, a young mother waiting in a consulting room of the Matola II clinic just outside Mozambique’s capital Maputo. “For me ta…

Sajad Sanjari was arrested at the age of 15 for fatally stabbing a man he said was trying to rape him. The teenager was sentenced to death by a court in western Iran that rejected his claims of self-defense.Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial owing …

Gauteng Health multimillion PPE tender declared invalid and unlawfulA R103 million personal protective equipment (PPE) tender awarded by the Gauteng Department of Health to Zakheni Strategic Supplies (Pty) Ltd has been declared unlawful and invalid. On…

ABUJA— The death toll in Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has doubled over the past year.Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) revealed that 158 people have died since the beginning of the year.Statistics are for January to June, when 797 cases hav…