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Tedros lauds India, PM Modi for supporting vaccine equity
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 25 (ANI): World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday thanked India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "supporting vaccine equity".
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WHO warns unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution can lead to global risk
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 20 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday urged countries and drugmakers to help speed up the manufacture and distribution of vaccines across the globe, warning that the world could be "back at square one" if some coun
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WHO gives AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 vaccines emergency use approval
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Geneva [Switzerland], February 16 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday (local time) gave emergency use approval (EUA) to two versions of AstraZeneca-Oxford-developed COVID-19 vaccines, allowing these shots to be rolled out globally through COVAX. The vaccines are being produc
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WHO open to all hypotheses on coronavirus origins: Tedros
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Geneva [Switzerland], February 13 (ANI): The World Health Organization's (WHO) team probing coronavirus origins, which is on a visit to China's Wuhan, the first Covid-19 hotspot, will publish a preliminary report next week, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.
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Coronavirus can be controlled, WHO Chief says, pointing to decrease in num
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The global decrease in the number of new emerging cases of COVID-19 suggests that the virus can be controlled regardless of its mutations, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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WHO chief lauds India, PM Modi for support to global COVID-19 response
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 23 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday expressed gratitude to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for continued support to the global COVID-19 response against the pandemic.
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WHO chief thanks Biden for membership U-turn, US joining ACT Accelerator,
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 21 (ANI/Sputnik): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday thanked new US President Joe Biden for honouring his pledge to U-turn on its membership status and join the organization's vaccine access initiatives.
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WHO chief warns against COVID-19 vaccine distribution, says 'world is on b
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 19 (ANI): As several countries have rolled out coronavirus vaccines, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has questioned the fairness in the distribution of the vaccines and said that the world is on the "brink of a catastr
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10 WHO experts arrive at Wuhan to investigate COVID-19 origin
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): A team of 10 World Health Organisation (WHO) experts arrived in Wuhan on Thursday to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, where it began a year ago.
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Tedros refutes new Japanese coronavirus mutation more aggressive
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 12 (ANI/Sputnik): There is no evidence to suggest that the newly-detected Japanese mutation made the coronavirus more aggressive, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
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WHO disappointed China hasn't granted entry to coronavirus experts
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 6 (ANI): The World Health Organization expressed dissappointment over China not finalising the permissions for the arrival of the team that was to investigate the origin of the coronavirus, said world health body chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday (loc
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WHO chief lauds India's decisive action, resolve to end COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 5 (ANI): Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday lauded India's action and its resolve to end the COVID-19 pandemic as the largest vaccine producer of the world.
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