Disease

Nearly 90% of people in Henan, China’s third most populous province, have now been infected with Covid, local health officials say. Provincial official Kan Quancheng revealed the figure – amounting to about 88.5 million people –...

An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations...

The number of children suffering dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five months, according to UNICEF. Around 20.2 million children are now facing the threat of severe hunger, thirst...

People who have had Covid more than once are two or three times more likely to have a range of serious health problems than those who have only had it once, the first major study on...

Since the onset of the cholera outbreak in Haiti, children below 14 years make up nearly half of the 1,700 suspected cases. Gang violence, fuel shortages and street blockades are hindering humanitarian access to safe water...

Three people in an isolation unit of Uganda’s main hospital have tested positive for Ebola, the country’s health minister said on Saturday. “Yesterday … three individuals from among the 60 in our Mulago isolation facility tested...

The resurgence of cholera in violence-stricken Haiti after three years without a single reported case threatens the well-being and health of 1.2 million children living in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, UNICEF warned. As the country grapples with...

At least seven people in Haiti have died from cholera, authorities said Sunday, raising fresh fears of a resurgent epidemic in the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation. Nearly three years after Haiti’s last confirmed cholera case, the country’s...

Covid infections in the UK are rising and have topped more than one million, according to official estimates. There has been a 14% rise in people testing positive in the week to 20 September – the...

Australia has said it will end mandatory Covid isolation requirements from October. Currently, anyone who tests positive to the virus must isolate for five days, but that will end from 14 October. At times nicknamed “Fortress...