Showing posts with label Ebola. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ebola. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 December 2014

Sierra Leone cancels Christmas celebrations because of Ebola.

Poor Sierra leonians. They won't get to celebrate Christmas. The government of Sierra Leone, in a bid to curtail the spread of the deadly disease that ravaged its country, has cancelled all public celebrations

Friday, 12 December 2014

Time magazine names Ebola fighters, "Person of the year" for 2014.

World renowned magazine, Time magazine has for this year named all the fighters and survivors of the disease, Ebola as their"person of the year".

Saturday, 6 December 2014

Ebola - 100 Nigerian health workers in Sierra Leone to help curb Ebola

The Nigerian federal ministry of health has announced that 100 volunteer health workers from the country has travelled to Sierra Leone to help contain the dreadful disease, Ebola.
 These health workers are from health centers from around the country.They alongside other volunteers from other countries received training on working with Ebola patients by WHO in Accra, Ghana before embarking on their journey.

Thursday, 13 November 2014

EBOLA -,MSF to start using vaccines next month.

The international association, Medicins sans frontiers has said it would start carrying out clinical tests and start giving the recently finished Ebola vaccine from next month.

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Morroco no longer hosting ACN 2014.The confederation of African federation

The confederation for African football has confirmed that Morocco will no longer be hosting the 2014 African nations' cup.This is as a result of Morocco not meeting the deadline given to them by CAF to decide if they still wanted to host the tournament.
 CAF said this action violated one of their regulations and withdrew their sponsorship rights.

CAF also announced that it has received applications from some countries showing interest in hosting the competition next year January.

Morocco had earlier tried to get CAF to push further the dates of the championship due to Ebola fears.