The World Health Organisation’s Europe unit is reporting that about one in 10 people who contracted Covid-19 continue to show “persistent ill health” 12
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New Covid-19 cases down 16% last week: WHO
The number of new cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide fell by 16 percent last week to 2.7 million, the WHO said. Five of the
WHO lists Oxford Covid vaccine for emergency use
The WHO on Monday listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the relatively inexpensive shot in the developing
WHO open to all hypotheses on virus origins
UK variant of Covid strain detected in 86 countries: WHO
Explainer: What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in Wuhan
WHO probe team in China visits animal health facility
A team of investigators led by the WHO arrived at an animal health facility in China’s central city of Wuhan in the search for
Time to team up and tackle Long Covid, says WHO expert
WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan was expected to visit Huanan
Don’t repeat ‘bad history’ of vaccine hoarding: WHO
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus decried the skirmish in wealthy countries to secure large amounts of various vaccines against the coronavirus while few doses
WHO team visits 2nd Wuhan hospital in virus investigation
Members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early Covid-19 patients
Covid origin: WHO-led team meet Chinese scientists
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic began meeting with Chinese scientists on Friday, and the WHO
WHO team to start virus probe under global glare
The WHO insists the visit will be tightly tethered to the science of how the virus — which has killed more than two million
China warns US against ‘politicising’ WHO virus probe
China hopes the US can “respect facts and science, respect the hard work of the WHO international… expert team”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman
Fauci lays out Joe Biden’s support for WHO
Fauci, speaking by videoconference from pre-dawn United States to WHO’s executive board, said the US will join the UN health agency’s efforts to bring
UK Covid strain detected in at least 60 countries: WHO
World facing ‘catastrophic’ moral failure on vaccines: WHO chief
The world is on the “brink of a catastrophic moral failure” if rich countries hog Covid-19 vaccine doses while the poorest suffer, the head
What WHO researchers in Wuhan are trying to learn
The WHO team of international researchers that arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday hopes to find clues to the origin
Second year of Covid could tougher than the first: WHO
“We are going into a second year of this, it could even be tougher given the transmission dynamics and some of the issues that
WHO experts in Wuhan for virus origin probe
The virus was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and has since billowed out across the world killing
WHO convenes emergency committee early over Covid variants
The World Health Organization’s emergency committee will meet two weeks early on Thursday to discuss the new coronavirus variants from South Africa and Britain
‘China denies entry to two WHO team members after tests’
China denied entry to two members of a WHO team investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus after both tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies,
WHO team will fly from S’pore to Wuhan on Jan 14: China
A World Health Organization team of international experts investigating the origin of the novel coronavirus will arrive in the Chinese city of Wuhan from
China says WHO experts to visit Wuhan in virus origins probe
World Health Organisation experts will visit the city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first detected in late 2019, at the start of their
Japanese health ministry finds new virus variant
The variant was found in airport tests on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the ministry said
China says WHO Wuhan visit preparations ongoing
China confirmed Saturday that preparations were still ongoing for a World Health Organization mission to Wuhan to investigate the origins of Covid-19, following a
WHO blames spiked Italy report on error, ‘overlooked’ rule
The World Health Organization denied Thursday that Italian officials pressured it to spike a report into Italy’s coronavirus response but said the UN agency
WHO urges rich countries to stop jumping vaccine queue
China denies coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying’s remarks came amidst reports that a ten-member team of the WHO scientists would visit China this month to
WHO clears Pfizer vaccine for emergency use
The World Health Organization says it has cleared the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, meaning poorer countries may soon get access to the