CDC Webinar Today! COVID-19 Update: Optimization Strategies for Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
During this COCA Call, presenters will provide a COVID-19 update and discuss strategies for healthcare facilities to optimize personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies such as eye protection, isolation gowns, facemasks, and N95 respirators. Webinar participants and viewers will accomplish the following: Describe CDC’s role in the topic covered during the presentation. Describe the topic’s implications […]
WHO AFRO COVID Briefing Available
The latest WHO AFRO COVID newsletter briefing id available here This map illustrates confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Africa as of 17:00pm on 19 March, 2020, West Africa Standard Time. Cases in countries outside the WHO African Region are shown for context.
COVID-19 External Situation Report 18 March 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the WHO African Region continues to evolve rapidly, with several new countries reporting confirmed cases and an associated upsurge in incidence cases reported across the region. WHO and partners continue to monitor and provide technical and operational support to Member States to scale up the response in affected […]
World Health Organization uses Nigeria as a case study on how to tackle the spread of Coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) has used Nigeria as a case study on how best to handle the spread of coronavirus across hard hit zones. Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, Michael Ryan made this known while addressing pressmen at a coronavirus response conference in Geneva, Switzerland. He pointed out that after Nigeria confirmed its […]
COVID-19 External Situation Report 11 March 2020
On 11 March 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic. The global COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve rapidly, with the number of countries affected in the WHO African Region steadily growing. Since our last situation report on 4 March 2020 (External Situation Report 1), six […]
Update on COVID-19 in Nigeria
Two new developments have taken place since the last briefing in Abuja on the coronavirus situation in Nigeria. The first is that a team of researchers from various institutions in Nigeria, including scientists from the Centre for Human and Zoology Virology in LUTH, African Centre for Genomics of Infectious Diseases in Redeemers University and the […]
WHO Democratic Republic of the Congo – External Situation Report 3 March 2020
From 24 February to 1 March 2020, no new confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) were reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the past 21 days (10 February to 1 March), the outbreak has been confined to a relatively small geographic area. During this period, two new confirmed cases were reported […]
COVID-19 External Situation Report 4 March 2020
Three countries, namely Algeria, Nigeria and Senegal, in the WHO African Region have reported confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The events are highlighted below: Algeria | 8 cases, 0 deaths On 25 February 2020, the Algerian Ministry of Health reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 following a positive test result for […]
Basic protective measures against the new Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Dear Friends & Colleagues, As you are well aware, there has been an outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) which started in the Wuhan Province of China in December, 2019 and is now a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The virus is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans. Basic […]