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COVID-19 cases globally declined by 17 pc last week
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 10 (ANI): The number of new COVID-19 cases reported across the world have declined, for the fourth week in a row, as per the data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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No evidence of coronavirus circulation in any animal species in China, say
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], February 9 (ANI): Weeks after a team of World Health Organization experts launched a probe into the origin of the COVID-19 in Wuhan, the global health body on Tuesday said that there is no evidence of coronavirus circulation in any animal species in China.
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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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UK COVID-19 variant present in 82 countries, South African strain in 39: W
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The UK COVID-19 variant has now spread to 82 countries and the South African strain to nearly 40, Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme, said on Monday.
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UN assists India's mammoth COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], January 20 (ANI): India on January 16 began its mammoth coronavirus vaccine rollout by administering 207,229 shots on the first day with the help of hundreds of thousands of health workers who were trained and assisted by the UN agencies.
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Two WHO scientists barred from entering China after testing positive for C
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Wuhan [China], January 14 (ANI): Two World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists en-route to China to investigate the origins of the pandemic are stuck in Singapore after testing positive for COVID-19 antibodies, the UN agency said on Thursday.
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WHO issues Emergency Use Validation for Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization said on Thursday it had issued an emergency use validation for the vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the Pfizer and BioNTech companies, the first one since the start of the pandemic.
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COVID-19 vaccines "not a silver bullet": WHO
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], December 17 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organization (WHO) regional office for the Western Pacific on Thursday called for greater vigilance amid the roll-out of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, saying the vaccine is not a "silver bullet" that will end the nearly year-
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COVID-19 fatality up nearly 60 per cent in last 6 weeks, Europe, Americas
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday warned about a spike of approximately 60 per cent in Covid-19 fatalities in the world over the last six weeks, with majority of cases and deaths concentrated in Europe and the Americas.
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WHO interested in best practices, clinical data on vaccines getting emerge
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 28 (ANI/Sputnik): Mariangela Simao, the World Health Organization's (WHO) assistant director-general for access to medicines and health products, said on Friday that the exchange of clinical data and best practices of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing remained cru
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High storage cost of Ultra-Cold COVID-19 vaccines should not hinder use: W
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 28 (ANI/Sputnik): The troublesome storing conditions of some candidate coronavirus vaccines and the associated high costs should not discourage countries from adopting them as an immunization means, Kate O'Brien, the director for Immunization, Vaccines and Biol
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WHO special envoy warns of danger of 3rd wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Euro
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], November 22 (ANI/Sputnik): David Nabarro, a special envoy of the World Health Organization (WHO), in an interview with the Swiss Badener Tagblatt newspaper on Sunday warned of the danger of a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe in early 2021.
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