The World Health Organization published its new two-year strategy for fighting COVID-19, seeking to help countries move from emergency mode to a long-term prevention and control strategy. Tha aim is "to support countries as they …
World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will end in 2023, according to a …
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed that the U.S. eased sanctions against Syria after repeated calls from international organizations and several countries. "We welcome the easing of sanctions …
The World Health Organization (WHO) will meet this week to assess whether Covid-19 is officially moving out of the pandemic phase. "Almost three years on from declaring a public emergency of international concern, our …
Lapses in strategies to tackle COVID-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a deadly new variant to emerge, as parts of China witness a rise in infections, the head of the World Health Organization said. "We are …
The number of deaths caused by the coronavirus infection has decreased worldwide almost by 90% since February but the international community should remain on alert given the current overall low level of testing for the presence of the virus and …
The number of new coronavirus cases fell everywhere in the world last week by about 12%, according to the World Health Organization's latest weekly review of the pandemic issued Wednesday. The U.N. health agency reported that there …
The number of fatalities caused by the coronavirus infection worldwide in 2022 has surpassed one million, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Thursday. "This week, we crossed the tragic …
The number of fatalities caused by coronavirus has increased by 35% over the past four weeks and with the onset of cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere the risk of the infection spreading will only increase, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom …
With more than 6,000 cases worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to reconvene a meeting to decide whether to declare the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency, the organization's highest level of alert, the organization …
On Thursday, June 16, Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus held a meeting in Baku. During the meeting, the reforms carried out in the healthcare …
The World Health Organization announced that it will rename the monkeypox virus, which has infected more than 1,600 people in 39 countries this year, after a group of scientists voiced concerns that the name could be stigmatizing. …
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been re-elected as Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) for his second five-year term. This decision was made by the 75th World Health Assembly today. Voting on the …
COVID-19 incidence is growing in nearly 70 world nations amid the decreasing testing rates, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday and called achieving a vaccination coverage of at least …
Covid cases are on the rise in more than 50 countries around the world, and the main impetus for this growth is provided by the variants of the omicron strain, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health …
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the coronavirus pandemic is still far from over. "It’s pleasing to now see a downward trend in reported deaths, which last week were the lowest in more than two …
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to work together to bring the acute phase of the pandemic to an end, saying that they now have all the tools available to do so. "The COVID-19 pandemic is now …
The simultaneous circulation of the Delta and Omicron variants of the coronavirus is creating a "tsunami of cases", World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing on Wednesday. …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus have discussed the registration of Russia’s vaccine Sputnik V, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. "On …
The World Health Organization has urged people to cancel some of their holiday plans to protect public health, as the Omicron variant spreads globally. "An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled," said WHO head Tedros …
