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WHO assessing reports on risks related to AstraZeneca vaccine against COVI
Updated : 5 years, 3 months 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, 3 months 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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Ethiopia to receive 2.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], March 6 (ANI/Xinhua): Ethiopia is scheduled to receive its first 2.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX on Sunday morning, said the country's Federal Ministry of Health on Friday.
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COVAX delivered 20 million doses to world's poor in first week of distribu
Updated : 5 years, 3 months 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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WHO investigators plan to scrap interim report on probe into COVID-19 orig
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 5 (ANI): A World Health Organization (WHO) team probing into the origins of coronavirus is planning to scrap an interim report on its recent mission to China amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and an appeal from one intern
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Less than 10 pc of world's population have coronavirus antibodies: WHO Chi
Updated : 5 years, 4 months 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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UN Security Council calls for cease-fires to speed up COVID-19 vaccinatio
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], February 27 (ANI/Xinhua): The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution calling on all member states to support a "sustained humanitarian pause" to local conflicts, in order to allow for COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Japanese WHO expert voices skepticism on China's theory 'virus intruded' i
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], February 25 (ANI): A Japanese expert from the World Health Organization (WHO), who visited Wuhan as part of the investigative team to look into the origins of COVID-19, has voiced skepticism on China's stance that the virus had originally entered the country from abroad throug
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WHO warns unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution can lead to global risk
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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 believes badgers, rabbits could have spread COVID-19 to humans
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 19 (ANI/Sputnik): World Health Organization (WHO) experts investigating the pandemic's origins suggest that ferret badgers and rabbits, which were sold at a Wuhan market in China, could have played a role in spreading the novel coronavirus to humans, The Wall S
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WHO gives AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 vaccines emergency use approval
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
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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Ayush Ministry, WHO sign letter of exchange on cooperation in traditional
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New Delhi [India], February 15 (ANI): The Ministry of Ayush and the World Health Organization South East Regional Office (WHO SEARO) on Monday signed a letter of exchange (LoE) for the secondment or deputation of an Ayush expert to WHO's regional traditional medicine programme in New Delhi.
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