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WHO approves Moderna vaccine for emergency use
The World Health Organisation has given the go-ahead for emergency use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. The mRNA vaccine from the US manufacturer joins vaccines
Covid-19 deaths, hospitalisations slowing in Brazil, WHO says
Hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have started declining after four weeks of slowing infections in Brazil, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Denmark looking to share its unwanted AstraZeneca vaccines: WHO
Denmark is examining options for sharing AstraZeneca’s vaccines with poorer nations after it halted use of the shots over concerns about rare blood clots,
Covid-19 pandemic ‘a long way from over’: WHO chief
Even though more than 780 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine have now been administered globally, the pandemic is “a long way from over” but
WHO urges pause in market sale of captured live wild animals
The United Nations’ health agency on Tuesday urged countries to suspend the sale of live animals captured from the wild in food markets as
North Korea tells WHO it’s still virus-free
Isolated North Korea has continued to claim a perfect record in keeping out the coronavirus in its latest report to the World Health Organisation.
WHO denies issuing warning of 5k Covid deaths in India
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has refuted reports claiming that it has issued a warning on 50,000 fatalities due to Covid-19 in India by
Europe vaccine rollout ‘unacceptably slow’: WHO
The World Health Organization on Thursday slammed Europe’s vaccine rollout as “unacceptably slow” and said it was prolonging the pandemic as the region sees
China under pressure after WHO chief revives lab leak theory
A report by WHO and Chinese experts released on Tuesday had judged the lab-leak hypothesis highly unlikely, saying the virus behind Covid-19 had probably
WHO chief toughens tone on China with lab probe call
The WHO’s chief, long accused of complacency towards Beijing, hardened his tone Tuesday, urging further investigation into a theory Covid-19 sprang from a laboratory
China dodges WHO’s call for further probe into Wuhan lab theory
WHO chief says all possible Covid origins ‘need further study’
The WHO’s chief said Monday that all hypotheses on the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins remained open and needed further study, based on international experts’ report
Growing global vaccine gap ‘grotesque’: WHO
The WHO tore into wealthy nations now vaccinating younger people at low risk of developing Covid-19 disease, bluntly saying they were costing vulnerable people’s
J&J jab effective in countries with variants: WHO experts
The WHO’s expert vaccine advisers on Wednesday recommended Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 jab for use in countries where coronavirus variants of concern are circulating.
WHO reviewing data, recommends AstraZeneca jabs continue
A World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine safety panel said on Wednesday that it considers that the benefits of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine outweigh its
WHO experts to meet on AstraZeneca shot as virus cases surge
Countries halting AstraZeneca vaccine
Ahead of Tuesday’s World Health Organization experts meeting, the company has insisted there is no risk and the WHO has said countries should continue
Wuhan wet market likely origin of pandemic: WHO delegation to China
Covid origins report due out week of March 15: WHO
The international investigation into the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins in China will publish its report in the week of March 15, the World Health Organization’s
Covid cases rising again in Europe, warns WHO
“Last week, new cases of Covid-19 in Europe grew nine per cent to touch a little over one million. This ends a promising six-week
WHO urges actions for ‘long Covid’ sufferers
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
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