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WHO recommends follow-up care for COVID-19 patients

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that patients who have COVID-19 – both confirmed and suspected – should have access to follow-up care if they have persistent, new or changing symptoms. This is one of the recommendations made by…

UK COVID-19 related deaths top 100,000

A total of 100,162 COVID-19 related deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street news conference that it was hard to compute the…

Joe Biden becomes 46th U.S. President

Joe Biden’s Inauguration as U.S. President has taken place after weeks of tensions following declaration of results by the Electoral college. The 46th American president – Biden’ took oath office Wednesday at the capitol building, same venue where Pro Trump…

UN releases new framework on diet

Public settings, such as schools, childcare centres, nursing homes and hospitals and all other canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food. That’s according to a new action framework which says…

FAO: Food prices hit 3-year high in 2020

A UN food agency said Thursday that global food prices hit a three-year high in 2020. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said the food price index rose 3.1% year-on-year in 2020, averaging 97.9 – 2.9 points higher than 2019.…

World Bank predicts economic growth for 2021

The World Bank Group on Tuesday issued a guarded growth forecast for the global economy this year, saying that a four per cent overall expansion was likely, although the recovery will likely be a “subdued” one. Policy makers must move decisively,…

UNICEF calls for support for 10M at risk children

The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF has expressed deep concern for the health and well-being of 10.4 million children projected to suffer from acute malnutrition next year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel,…