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The Nigeria Federal Executive Council (FEC) has instructed the Federal Ministry of Health to step up emergency surveillance activities at all land and airport borders in the country, towards keeping Nigerians safe from the latest Ebola Epidemic which is currently ravaging Democratic Republic of Congo.

Minister of Health, Isaac Adewale, while addressing newsmen on Wednesday after the FEC meeting said, the government is greatly concerned about the fresh outbreak of Ebola virus in Congo, and that over the last one month, DRC recorded 19 suspected cases of viral hemorrhagic fever out of which 16 of those cases resulted to deaths.

The democratic republic of Congo has confirmed two cases of Ebola virus in the north-western town of Bikoro and at least 10 more cases are suspected, the head of the national institute for biological research, Jean Jack Muyembe, has said.

The two cases were confirmed by the laboratory of the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Equateur Province, northwestern DRC.

It is the nine-time Ebola has been recorded in the DRC, whose eastern Ebola river gave the deadly virus its name when it was discovered there in the 1970s.

days after President Muhammadu Buhari returned from the United States where he met with President Donald Trump, he is set to embark on a medical trip to the United Kingdom on Tuesday on the advice of his medical doctor. The Presidency made this known on Monday evening in a statement issued the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu. He disclosed that the President would return to the country on Sunday.

The United Nations (UN) and charity alliance Gavi said, the biggest cholera vaccine drive in history gets underway in Africa, targeted at reining in a spate of outbreaks across the continent.

According to Gavi, Over two million people will receive the oral cholera vaccine as part of five major campaigns in Malawi, Nigeria, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia, adding that the campaigns should be complete by mid-June.

 Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a non-governmental organization founded by the Wife of the Senate President, Toyin Saraki in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) have concluded plans to take the hand washing campaign to Nigerian schools in order to curb preventable diseases.

Officials of Food and Drugs Authority in Volta Region, Ghana on Friday said they have seized Boxes of drugs, including Tramadol, the popularly abused prescribed-only pain relief, which were being smuggled into Nigeria from Togo. According to Punch, the Volta Regional Director of the FDA, Gordon Akurugu disclosed this while speaking on a Ghanaian show on Friday.