The DRC has reported 515 confirmed cases of Ebola, including 91 deaths, as of now. Uganda has recorded 19 confirmed cases, with two deaths and one probable fatal case.
The Health Ministry clarified that no Ebola case linked to the Bundibugyo strain has been reported in India so far. However, authorities are closely monitoring the situation in line with international health advisories.
The United States has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization, citing COVID-19 failures and politicisation, ending funding and signalling a major shift in global health engagement.
The centre was targeted while parents were bringing their children for polio vaccinations.
Tobacco use is a global epidemic that kills six million people annually. Approximately one person dies every six seconds due to tobacco, accounting for one in 10 adult deaths.
According to the data shared by World Health Organisation (WHO), even before the pandemic, one in eight people was identified with a mental disorder.
The World Health Organisation had declared the products of the Soneput-based firm contaminated and substandard.
The majority of the current confirmed cases of monkeypox are male and most of these cases occur among of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.
“We thank the World Health Organization for rightly conferring the award on the most deserving ASHA workers,” the ASHA federation said.
On Technical Advisory Group recommendation, the variant has been declared as a variant of concern by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
