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WHO officials talk to the health workers at Kasensero Health Center II

WHO supports the Government of Uganda to rapidly respond to COVID–19 at Kasensero Landing Site

Kampala, 2 September 2020:- Kasensero landing site located on…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 31 August 2020

31 August 2020 — Forty-three (43) new COVID-19 cases were identified…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 30 August 2020

30 August 2020 — A hundred and seventy-seven (177) new COVID-19 cases…
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Frontline Health Workers follow WHO IPC guidelines as they provide care for Covid-19 patients

By Tatenda Chimbwanda Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - The first day Princess…
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Commissioning of the Molecular laboratory in Makeni to facilitate scaling up of COVID-19 testing

A new COVID-19 testing laboratory commissioned in rural Sierra Leone supported by WHO

On 29 August 2020, a newly established WHO-supported COVID-19 testing…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 29 August 2020

29 August 2020 — A hundred and one (101) new COVID-19 cases were…
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Commissioning of the Molecular laboratory in Makeni to facilitate scaling up of COVID-19 testing

A new COVID-19 testing laboratory commissioned in rural Sierra Leone supported by WHO

On 29 August 2020, a newly established WHO-supported COVID-19 testing…
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Commissioning of the Molecular laboratory in Makeni to facilitate scaling up of COVID-19 testing

A new COVID-19 testing laboratory commissioned in rural Sierra Leone supported by WHO

On 29 August 2020, a newly established WHO-supported COVID-19 testing…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 28 August 2020

28 August 2020 — Seventy (70) new COVID-19 cases were identified out…
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Health workers going through the drills of donning and doffing Personal Protective Equipment during an outbreak of Marburg Hemorrhagic fever in Kapchorwa district, eastern Uganda in 2017.

How Previous Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks Helped Uganda Respond to COVID-19 Outbreak

For many public health workers in Uganda, responding to disease…
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