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WHO chief hopes coronavirus pandemic will last less than two years
Aug 22, 2020
GENEVA: The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine. The WHO has always been cautious about giving estimates on how quickly the pandemic can b...
WHO urges countries to prioritise essential international travel
Jul 31, 2020
WHO says nations must take account transmission patterns No ‘zero risk’ in international travel, WHO says Countries should gradually lift international travel measures based on a thorough risk assessment and must prioritise essential travel for emergencies, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The WHO recommended tha...
WHO advance team heads to China to set up probe into coronavirus origin
Jul 11, 2020
GENEVA: A two-member advance team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus behind a pandemic that has killed more than 550,000 people globally, the UN agency said on Friday. The virus is believed to have emerged in a wholesale market in the central Chinese c...
WHO acknowledges ‘evidence emerging’ of airborne spread of COVID-19
Jul 8, 2020
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people. “We have been talking about the possibility of airborne tra...
WHO calls for Brazil to better coordinate efforts against coronavirus
Jun 30, 2020
SAO PAULO/GENEVA: Brazil still faces a “big challenge” to curb the coronavirus pandemic and should do more to integrate its efforts at different levels of government, a top World Health Organization official said on Monday. “We would encourage once more that Brazil continues to fight against the disease, that Brazil...
WHO director for Americas says 226,000 have died of COVID-19 in region
Jun 25, 2020
BRASILIA: Nearly half of all COVID-19 cases globally can be found in the Americas and the numbers continue to climb, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Americas, Carissa Etienne, said on Wednesday. As of June 23, there have been more than 4.5 million COVID-19 cases and 226,000 deaths reported in the Americas, she said ...
Chinese researchers launch phase-2 human test for possible coronavirus vaccine
Jun 21, 2020
BEIJING: Chinese researchers have started a second phase human trial of a possible coronavirus vaccine, the Institute of Medical Biology at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (IMBCAMS) said on Sunday, in efforts to further assess effectiveness and safety. About a dozen vaccines are in different stages of human tests globally, as the World Health ...
Asymptomatic spread is not rare: Dr Fauci’s June 10 counter on WHO claims
Jun 21, 2020
KATHMANDU: While the mystery of the legendary coronavirus is still unsolved in many aspects, doctors and scientists remain confused with World Health Organization claiming that spreading of coronavirus infection from asymptomatic patients is ‘rare’. Epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on coronavirus pandemi...
