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WHO says coronavirus poses 'grave threat' for the world
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 11 (ANI): The novel coronavirus outbreak poses a "very grave threat for the rest of the world," said Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in an appeal for sharing virus samples and speeding up research into drugs and v
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WHO sends expert mission to China amid coronavirus outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 10 (ANI): Amid coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has sent an international expert mission led by Dr. Bruce Aylward to China on Monday.
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Global aviation clocks slower but steady passenger growth in 2019: IATA
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 7 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced full-year global passenger traffic results for 2019 showing that demand (revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs) rose by 4.2 per cent compared to the full year of 2018.
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2019 worst year for global air freight demand since 2009: IATA
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 5 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released full-year 2019 data for global air freight markets on Wednesday showing that demand measured in freight tonne kilometres (FTKs) fell by 3.3 per cent compared to 2018 while capacity (AFTK) rose by 2
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WHO needs USD 61.5 mn to respond to coronavirus outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 5 (Sputnik/ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that it needed USD 61.5 million to address the near-term impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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WHO declares public health emergency over coronavirus
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 31 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday announced a public health emergency of international concern over the coronavirus crisis in China and other countries.
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WHO to convene emergency meeting on Thursday on China virus
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 29 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organisation (WHO) will convene an emergency meeting on Thursday over the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet on Wednesday.
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WHO says 'too early' to declare public health emergency on coronavirus out
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 24 (ANI): The World Health Organistion (WHO) on Thursday said that it was 'too early' to declare the outbreak of coronavirus in China as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).
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WHO emergency committee meets over coronavirus outbreak
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 23 (ANI/Sputnik): The WHO Emergency Committee held a discussion on Wednesday over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, but it did not come to a concrete decision whether to declare a global state of emergency.
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Global air freight demand slips down 1.1 pc in November: IATA
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 9 (ANI): The latest data for global air freight markets released by International Air Transport Association (IATA) shows that demand measured in freight tonne kilometres (FTKs) decreased by 1.1 per cent in November 2019 compared to the same period in 2018.
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Meet ProtonCalendar, the first fully encrypted calendar app
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 1 (ANI): Encrypted mail service provider ProtonMail introduced the first-ever fully encrypted calendar app.
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Pakistan blasphemy death sentence for lecturer is 'travesty of justice': U
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva, [Switzerland], Dec 27 (ANI): The United Nations human rights experts on Thursday condemned the death sentence handed to lecturer Junaid Hafeez by a Pakistan court and called the ruling a "travesty of justice"
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