The leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) stressed this Monday, that the year 2022 should be the one in which "puts an end to the pandemic". For this, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, asked for prudence in parties during a press conference at the UN, in Geneva (Switzerland) and recommended to families and people who intend to be in the...
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Covid-19: WHO approves emergency use of Indian CovovaxTM vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) has authorized the emergency use of the Indian CovovaxTM covid-19 vaccine. This is the ninth covid-19 vaccine approved by the WHO. It is the first vaccine produced by the Serological Institute of India and licensed from the US laboratory Novavax that is designed from proteins that trigger...
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Covid-19. WHO wants equitable distribution of vaccines
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) today called for an end to "vaccine inequity" and criticized restrictions imposed on countries where the new covid-19 variant has been detected, whose transparency should be "compensated, not punished." Tedros Ghebreyesus, who was speaking during the closing session of the first International Conference on Public Health in...
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"Transparency should be rewarded, not punished," argues WHO
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) criticized this Thursday, the restrictions imposed on countries where a new variant was detected, whose transparency should be "compensated and not punished". According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was speaking at the closing session of the first International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA), he thanked...
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Crude Oil Retreats on Omicron and Increased Supply
Oil prices fell again today after the World Health Organization (WHO) said that covid-19 vaccines may be less effective against the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Also weighing on the trading are increasing signs that supply growth will outstrip demand in the coming...
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Africa may miss the 70% vaccination target by 2024
The African continent may miss the goal of vaccinating 70% of the population, 1.3 billion people against covid-19 by the second half of 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. News sources report that health officials in South Africa, who announced the new variant, claim that...
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Covid-19 pandemic has thrown half a billion people into extreme poverty by 2020
Covid 19 has had severe impacts on humanity, especially on the most vulnerable people. According to a statement from the World Bank and the World Health Organization, WHO, the cost of Covid 19 on health has "stuck" half a million people in extreme poverty around the world last year. This is the worst economic crisis in...
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"Pandemic is moving at two speeds," deems WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) believes that the covid-19 pandemic is moving at two very different speeds, with the disease impacting vaccinated and unvaccinated people. On Thursday, the WHO said that in the case of vaccinated people, they may still be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus but will have, in most cases,...
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Malaria makes more deaths than covid-19 in 2020, says WHO
The WHO's World Malaria Report reveals that 241 million cases of the disease and 627,000 deaths were recorded last year. The figures represent about 14 million more notifications and 69,000 more deaths when compared to 2019 rates. The UN agency stated that the pandemic...
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Insufficient records could leave millions without vaccines in Africa
Insufficient civil registries in Africa could exclude millions of people from vaccination against covid-19 for lack of access to documentation and health services, concludes a study by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation quoted by Lusa. According to the study "Covid-19 in Africa: a difficult road to recovery," more than 50% of children born in...