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WHO Chief Scientist Commends India For Keeping COVID-19 Cases Low

New Delhi: World Health Organisation’s Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on Monday commended India for keeping the coronavirus cases and deaths very low compared to other countries and said it will play an important role in the development of a vaccine for COVID-19. She said the whole world has to be prepared for the ongoing transmission […]

  • Saturday, 17 April 2021
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Donald Trump warns permanent freeze of WHO funding over subservience to China

Washington: US President Donald Trump has warned the WHO that he would reconsider America’s membership in the UN health body and “permanently freeze” the funding to it if it does not demonstrate its “independence” from China in the next 30 days. On April 14, President Trump halted America’s funding of up to USD 500 million […]

  • Friday, 16 April 2021
India to head WHO Exec Board from Friday amid leadership vacuum post-COVID

New Delhi: At a time when the credibility of the World Health Organization (WHO) has plummeted to an all-time low and internationally there’s a groundswell for new leadership, India’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan is all set to be the chairman of the WHO’s Executive Board. He has been elected to the post and will take […]

  • Friday, 16 April 2021
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India will have to play key role in mass production of coronavirus vaccine: France

New Delhi: India will have an important role to play in the mass production of medicines and vaccines for coronavirus infection once the treatment for the deadly disease is found, French Ambassador Emmanuel Lenain has said. Dozens of researchers across the globe are racing against time to come out with a vaccine for coronavirus that […]

  • Friday, 16 April 2021
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WHO Chief: There Might Never Be A 'Silver Bullet' For Covid-19

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief on Monday said although a number of vaccines are now in phase three clinical trials, there is no “silver bullet” at the moment, and there might never be for Covid-19. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference that for now, stopping Covid-19 outbreaks come down […]

  • Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Covid-19 Pandemic Could Be Over Within 2 Years: WHO Chief

Geneva: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years. Addressing a virtual press briefing from Geneva on Friday, the WHO chief said that the Spanish flu of 1918 had also taken two years to overcome, but current advances in […]

  • Tuesday, 13 April 2021
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