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London: In a significant discovery, data pooled from 121 hospitals in eight countries by clinicians and scientists have found that inexpensive, widely available steroids improve the odds that very sick Covid-19 patients will survive the illness. The analysis was conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) and was published on Wednesday in the Journal of […]

Geneva: The number of single-day coronavirus cases globally has hit a new record high, said the World Health Organization (WHO). In a statement on Sunday, the WHO said that there were 307,930 new cases globally in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day figure ever registered and about 1,000 more than the previous recording-setting daily […]

Geneva: A total of 156 economies representing nearly two-thirds of the world’s population have joined the COVAX Facility, an international initiative to ensure equitable global access to vaccines against the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. This includes 64 higher-income economies, which are self-financing in procuring the Covid-19 vaccines once available, and 92 […]

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the global coronavirus death toll could hit two million before an effective vaccine is widely used. WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan on Friday said the figure could be even higher without concerted international action, the BBC reported. The number of Covid-19 deaths is fast approaching one million […]

New York: World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assurance that India will use its vaccine production capacity in helping nations fight COVID-19, saying the pandemic can be defeated only by mobilising resources for common good. In his address to the 75th session of the UN General Assembly […]

Geneva: A test that can diagnose Covid-19 in minutes will dramatically expand the capacity to detect cases in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The $5 test could transform tracking of Covid-19 in less wealthy countries, which have shortages of healthcare workers and laboratories, the BBC reported on Monday. A […]

Geneva: At least 120 million affordable, high-quality rapid Covid-19 tests will be rolled out for low and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an announcement. According to a statement issued on Monday, the organisations involved in agreement include the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the Bill & Melinda […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has earned praise from the World Health Organization (WHO) for its effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said on Wednesday. The CMO in its official twitter handle posted an article “From Governance to Community Resilience: Odishas Response to COVID-19” which appeared in the WHO portal: World Health […]

Geneva: In a special meeting, the leaders of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that one in 10 people around the world may have contracted Covid-19. A top official said the estimate meant “the vast majority of the world remains at risk”, the BBC reported. Just over 35m people have been confirmed as being infected […]

Geneva: Roughly 10 per cent of the world’s population may have been infected with the Coronavirus, leaving the vast majority vulnerable to the Covid-19 disease, the World Health Organization has said. “Our current best estimates tell us about 10% of the global population may have been infected by this virus. It varies depending on the […]

Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lauded India’s Aarogya Setu app during COVID-19 virtual media briefing at Geneva on Tuesday. WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the app helped city public health departments identify clusters and expand testing in the second worst affected country. “The Aarogya Setu app from India has been […]

Geneva: Despite a steady progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB) across the world, global targets for its prevention and treatment will likely be missed due to insufficient funding and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to a latest World Health Organization (WHO) report. The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2020 released on Wednesday said that between 2015 and […]

Geneva: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the world was still at “a critical juncture” in its fights against the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and called for “immediate action” as several countries have reported a resurgence in new confirmed cases. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Ghebreyesus said that […]

New Delhi: The Russian Direct Investment Fund, the country’s sovereign wealth fund, has submitted applications to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for accelerated registration and prequalification of Sputnik V, the world’s first registered vaccine against the coronavirus. Russia has become one of the first countries to apply to WHO for prequalification of its vaccine against […]

Geneva: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that he was self-quarantining after he was “identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19”. Taking to Twitter on Monday morning, he said: “I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19. I […]