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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
WHO Chief Thanks India For Resuming Covid Vaccine Export

Director-General of WHO has thanked Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya for resuming shipments of vaccines against the Covid-19 to the global platform COVAX from October.

  • Wednesday, 22 September 2021
WHO
WHO Calls For Global Governance Against Pandemic

In addition, the Commission called for regional bodies of governance such as a Pan-European Network for Disease Control and a Pan-European Health Threats Council to improve data-sharing and data-interoperability platforms across the vast Region.

  • Saturday, 11 September 2021
WHO
WHO Urges Joint Efforts To Prevent Future Covid-Like Pandemic

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged the entire world to work together to make it a reality.

  • Tuesday, 07 September 2021
Coronavirus Pandemic
Covid Maybe Entering Endemic Stage In India: WHO's Chief Scientist

The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus. It's very different from the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms a population.

  • Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Don't Treat COVID With Drug Meant For Livestock, Warns FDA
Don't Treat COVID With Drug Meant For Livestock, Warns FDA

The new warning came a day after the Mississippi State Department of Health issued a similar statement in response to reports that an increasing number of people in Mississippi were using the drug to prevent a Covid infection, the New York Times reported.

  • Sunday, 22 August 2021
Covid Vaccine
Vaccine Injustice Is A Shame On All Humanity: WHO

Ghebreyesus called out on manufacturers and leaders to prioritise supply to low- and middle-income countries over booster shots, to help bridge the gap between the haves and have nots.

  • Thursday, 19 August 2021
coronavirus
China Forced COVID-19 Origins Probe To Drop Lab-Leak Theory: WHO

A team of experts from the WHO, led by Embarek spent four weeks in China, in January, to investigate whether Covid-19 is the result of a lab leak. Their report, in March, concluded that a laboratory leak was "extremely unlikely".

  • Friday, 13 August 2021
China Wuhan Lab
WHO Calls China To Comply For New Probe Amidst US' Claim Covid-19 Modified At Wuhan Lab

The second phase of the WHO's proposed probe into the origins of the coronavirus in China, including audits of laboratories and markets in the city of Wuhan, calls for transparency from authorities.

  • Friday, 06 August 2021
WHO
Delta Variant Now Reported In 135 Countries, Global Coronavirus Cases Could Exceed 200 Million By Next Week: WHO

The global number of new cases has been increasing for more than a month, with over 4 million cases reported in the past week - July 26 to August 1, the update said.

  • Thursday, 05 August 2021
COVID
WHO Reports 'Sharp' Increase In Covid Deaths

WHO said that with over 69,000 fatalities, the number of Covid-19 deaths reported during the period increased by 21 per cent week-on-wee

  • Thursday, 29 July 2021
WHO
New Covid-19 Cases, Deaths And Spread Of Variants All On The Rise: WHO

Variants are continuing their progression, as the Alpha variant was seen in 180 countries while the Delta variant was reported from 13 new countries.

  • Thursday, 22 July 2021
More women in India smoke now than 30 years ago: Study

Female smokers in India has gone up in the last 30 years but the number of men who puff daily dipped in the country where more people are smoking today, say researchers

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Polio
Odisha records 5yrs without polio cases

Bhubaneswar: With the World Health Organisation (WHO) is all set to declare India “polio-free” for not a single case of the crippling disease being reported in the past three years, Odisha on Monday claimed that the last case of the vaccine-preventable disease was detected some five years ago in the state. “As per records, the […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
WHO Chief Says It Was 'Premature' To Rule Out COVID Lab Leak
WHO Chief Says It Was 'Premature' To Rule Out COVID Lab Leak

China has struck back aggressively, arguing that attempts to link the origins of COVID-19 to a lab were politically motivated and suggesting that the virus might have started abroad.

  • Thursday, 15 July 2021
Coronavirus
'Delta Variant Likely To Become Dominant Covid Strain Globally'

World Health Organization has warned that the Delta strain is likely to spread to more countries and that it is likely to become the dominant form of Covid-19 "in the coming months.

  • Thursday, 15 July 2021
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