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Amid safety concerns, Nepal to use China-made Vero Cell COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], April 4 (ANI): Nepal is set to start the second phase of its COVID-19 inoculation drive using China-made Vero Cell vaccine sans concerns over safety and approval from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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India 'fully supports' WHO's call for China to share comprehensive data on
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): India on Thursday said that it fully supports the World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom's expectation that future collaborative studies will include more timely and comprehensive data sharing but raised concerns over China's delaying t
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WHO slams Europe's 'unacceptably slow' COVID vaccine rollout
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 1 (ANI): The rollout of vaccines in Europe is "unacceptably slow," the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, delivering a damning evaluation on the region's Covid response, amid a "worrying" surge in infections.
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China attempts to shift attention on Covid-19 origins after WHO releases r
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 31 (ANI): As the international community continues to raise the credibility and transparency of the report by the World Health Organization on Covid-19 origins, China on Wednesday sought to shift attention away from efforts inside its borders to trace the source of the
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Six-week decline in global Covid-19 deaths has stalled: WHO
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 24 (ANI): A six-week decline in global Covid-19 deaths has stalled, with cases continuing to rise for the fourth consecutive week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Tuesday, citing figures it had received on Sunday.
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WHO says experts will likely present report on COVID-19 origins next week
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Independent experts of the World Health Organization (WHO), who have recently been on a mission in China, will most likely present their report about the origins of the coronavirus next week, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said.
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WHO grants emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 13 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday issued emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the one-shot dose to be used as part of the United Nation's international vaccine distribution effort.
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WHO encourages all nations to closely monitor adverse effects of any vacci
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Genoa [Italy], March 12 (ANI/Sputnik): All countries should closely monitor adverse health effects related to the use of any vaccine, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) told Sputnik following the suspension of the AstraZeneca drug in several EU countries.
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WHO assessing reports on risks related to AstraZeneca vaccine against COVI
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 12 (ANI): A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) told Sputnik that its Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) was carefully assessing the reports on risks related to the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19.
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One in 3 women subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetime:
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI): One in three women worldwide face physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner at some point in their lifetime, as per a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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COVAX delivered 20 million doses to world's poor in first week of distribu
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 6 (ANI): Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization's director-general, said on Friday, COVAX -- the international program set up to get coronavirus vaccines to the world -- delivered 20 million vaccine doses to 20 countries in the first week of
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Less than 10 pc of world's population have coronavirus antibodies: WHO Chi
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that less than 10 per cent of the global population have antibodies to the coronavirus, WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said.
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