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WHO confirms 65 coronavirus cases among headquarters staff since beginning
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 17 (ANI): The World Health Organisation on Monday (local time) revealed that 65 members of staff have tested positive for coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
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WHO concerned about spike in COVID-19 cases in Europe, Americas: Director
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 17 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organisation (WHO) is concerned about surging COVID-19 cases in various countries, especially in Europe and the Americas, despite encouraging news about coronavirus vaccines, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on
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WHO confirms 657,312 coronavirus cases worldwide in single day
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 15 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has risen by 657,312 within the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the outbreak of the pandemic, the World Health Organisation said on Saturday.
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WHO expert says agency had no COVID-19 clusters on premises
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 3 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization (WHO) has registered no cases of coronavirus transmissions on the premises, the technical lead on COVID-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, said on Monday after the director-general had gone into self-quarantine.
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WHO DG urges to go after COVID-19 virus, not the vulnerable
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 15 (ANI): As the countries continue to register news cases of coronavirus every day, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged the leaders to maintain peace and focus on combatting against the virus and "not the vulner
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WHO says each of last four days brought highest number of COVID-19 cases r
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The COVID-19 cases have been increasing around the world, each of the last four days saw the highest number of new cases yet, Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday.
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WHO reports record daily rise in coronavirus cases for third consecutive d
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 11 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of COVID-19 cases confirmed globally has been reaching daily record highs for three days in a row, according to data from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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COVID-19 disrupted mental health services in most countries despite high d
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 5 (ANI/Sputnik): A survey by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that mental health services have been disrupted in 93 per cent of countries despite increased demands, Devora Kestel, the director of WHO's Department o
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WHO fears global COVID-19 toll underestimated
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva, [Switzerland], September 29 (ANI/Sputnik): Michael Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Health emergencies program, said on Monday that the current death toll from the coronavirus disease was likely underestimated.
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WHO panel on response to COVID-19 pandemic to begin work Tuesday: Tedross
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva, [Switzerland], September 07 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization (WHO) review committee established to assess the performance of its International Health Regulations during the global coronavirus pandemic will begin its work on Tuesday, the health body's director-general, Ted
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No silver bullet for COVID-19 at present, there might never be: WHO
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Aug 3 (ANI): A number of coronavirus vaccines are now in phase three of clinical trials but "there's no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation Director-General said on Monday.
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Record high of 284,196 COVID-19 cases push global count to over 15.2 milli
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 25 (Sputnik/ANI): The global cumulative coronavirus tally increased by a record high of 284,196 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total count to over 15.2 million, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in its daily situation report on Friday.
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