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The World Health Organization (WHO) has extended its global healthcare emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic by three more months, the WHO Emergency Committee said in a statement issued in Geneva Monday. "As such, the Committee …
The World Health Organization confirmed more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths and 48 million cases in its European region, the health body’s regional director Hans Kluge said. "The situation in our region is serious; 1.6 …
More than 4 million novel coronavirus cases were registered worldwide in the past week, which is 5% more than during the previous seven-day period, the World Health Organization (WHO) said a weekly bulletin released in Geneva on Wednesday. …
An official from the World Health Organization (WHO) said there was "no link for the moment" between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots, stressing that the benefits of the vaccine were "largely still positive" …
A group of 14 countries including the United States and Japan has raised concerns over a report on the origins of COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and China, arguing that the WHO team was "significantly delayed and …
The EU could open up a ‘Pandora’s box’ if it restricts exports of coronavirus vaccines
Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland has commented on the death of a nurse after receiving AstraZeneca vaccination in Georgia, saying that in order to minimise the risks of anaphylaxis, …
A more contagious coronavirus strain VOC 202012/01 that was initially detected in the UK, has been reported in seven more countries over the past week, bringing the total to 101. The 501Y.V2 strain, first detected in South Africa, has spread to …
The World Health Organisation is not following up on claims that the novel coronavirus may have originally reached China through foreign frozen food, UN health agency expert Peter Embarek says, dismissing a Chinese theory. The WHO …
Herd immunity to the novel coronavirus has not yet been developed globally, so a third wave of the epidemic is possible if people are not cautious enough, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Russia Melita Vujnovic said. …
Animal disease specialist, WHO expert Peter Daszak said people most likely got infected with Covid-19 from bats. "I think the virus emerging either in Southeast Asia or Southern China from bats, getting into a domesticated wildlife …
About 90 people were hospitalized with COVID-19-like symptoms in central China in the two months before the disease was first identified in Wuhan in late 2019, according to World Health Organization investigators, who said they pressed Beijing to …
World Health Organization (WHO) envoy to Russia Melita Vujnovic said she had the Russian coronavirus vaccine and is feeling well. "Vaccines and any other medical interventions are an individual decision of each person. In …
The number of novel coronavirus cases reported worldwide in the period of February 1-7 dropped 17% compared to the previous week, while fatalities declined by 10%, according to a weekly bulletin, released by the World Health Organization (WHO) in …
The United States said on Tuesday the "jury’s still out" on whether China has been fully transparent on the coronavirus pandemic, after a World Health Organization report said it was unlikely the COVID-19 virus originated in a …
The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed hope, in its comment for Sputnik, that Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus would be distributed through the COVAX international program after receiving the WHO authorization for …
A World Health Organisation expert investigating the origins of COVID-19 says his team has uncovered “important clues” about a Wuhan seafood market's role in the outbreak, Bloomberg reported. Peter Daszak, a New …
Europe and pharma groups must work together to speed up Covid-19 vaccinations, head of the European branch of the World Health Organization Hans Kluge said, expressing concern about the effectiveness of vaccines on virus variants. …
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic left its quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019. …
WHO Azerbaijan organized the first PROACT-Care project coordination meeting with partners and stakeholders, …
