New York [US], May 13 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the process of recognition by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V was underway, and the UN would welcome its completion.
Geneva [Switzerland], May 12 (ANI): COVID-19 variant B.1.617, which was first identified in India last year and has been classified as a variant of global concern, has three sub-lineages, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official informed on Wednesday.
Taipei [Taiwan], May 12 (ANI): Taiwan has criticised China for its "shameless lies" as tensions have escalated over Beijing blocking the island from the World Health Organization (WHO).
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): The Government of India (GoI) on Wednesday clarified that World Health Organization (WHO) has not associated the term "Indian Variant" with the B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus in its weekly epidemiological update on the pandemic.
Geneva [Switzerland], May 12 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday informed that the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, first found in India in October last year, had been detected in sequences uploaded "from 44 countries in all six WHO regions".
New York [US], May 12 (ANI): A broad coalition of UN member states and civil society organizations (CSO) is set to hold an online event on Wednesday to raise awareness and discuss the human rights situation prevailing in China Xinjiang province.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], May 11 (ANI/News Voir): Nord Anglia Education, world's leading premium schools' organization with 73 schools spread across 30 countries, released global figures today showing how its 67,000 students are using online learning to further develop critical skills c
Geneva [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): The coronavirus variant B1617 first identified in India last year has been classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official informed on Monday.
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): Covid Response Team (CRT), an initiative of civil society with multiple stakeholders including religious, spiritual, business, philanthropic and social organizations is organizing a lecture series from May 11 to May 15 titled 'Positivity Unlimited' to spread
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], May 10 (ANI/News Voir): With the spread of second wave of COVID-19 in our country, the governments, institutions, corporates, NGOs and individuals are coming together to combat the unprecedented challenge the nation has ever faced in this century. Trident Group onc
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): The Congress on Monday decided to temporarily defer organizational elections for electing a new party chief in the wake of "emergent conditions prevailing on account of unprecedented coronavirus pandemic".
Washington DC [US], May 8 (ANI/Sputnik): It is up to the 194 member states of the World Health Organization to decide on whether to extend an invitation to Taiwan to participate in the World Health Assembly, according to WHO.