The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched a negotiating plan to reach an international agreement to prevent and fight the next pandemic more effectively. The 194 members of the WHO were unanimous in the decision, after three days of meetings of the World Health Assembly, the highest decision-making body...
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China pledges to provide one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Africa
China's President Xi Jinping pledged on Monday to provide an additional 1 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine to African countries now facing the emergence of the Omicron variant, classified as of "concern" by the World Health Organization (WHO). Without giving a date for the distribution, the Chinese president said that 600 million doses will be donated to the...
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Covid-19: WHO Calls for Open Borders
In light of the decisions that have been taken by several European countries and beyond to seal off airports to countries in the southern region due to the spread of the new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the World Health Organization has called for borders to remain open. The "WHO stands with African countries and asks...
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WHO authorizes technology that identifies antibodies against Covid-19
The World Health Organization, WHO, has finalized a funding agreement for a blood test that can identify and quantify different Covid-19 antibodies. The technology developed by Spain's National Research Council, Csic, can differentiate between antibodies produced by vaccination or generated by natural infection. In a statement, quoted by the UN News agency, the...
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"Accelerating vaccination is the best way to stop the pandemic," says WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) consider that the greatest weapon against the Covid-19 pandemic is to accelerate vaccination, since most hospitalizations and deaths occur in people who are not immunized
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Combating Covid 19: WHO Asks G-20 for USD 23.4 Billion
The World Health Organization (WHO) is demanding that rich countries (G-20) provide support of some $23.4 billion to address inequities in global access to vaccines and treatment by October 2022. For WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus, this is "a defining moment, requiring decisive leadership to make the world safer." The requests made...
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Modern makes 110 million doses of vaccine available for Africa
Moderna will make up to 110 million doses of its covid-19 vaccine available to African countries at the lowest price, the pharmaceutical company announced in a statement. The first 15 million doses are expected to be delivered by the end of this year, with 35 million in the first quarter of 2022 and up to 60 million...
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Covid-19 Up to 180M healthcare workers may have died
World Health Organization (WHO) data estimates that about 180,000 health care workers may have lost their lives worldwide between January last year and May this year due to Covid-19. The calculation is based on an analysis of 3.45 million coronavirus deaths, but the WHO believes that...
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"Pandemic will continue into 2022," warns WHO
The Covid-19 pandemic will continue into 2022, with the World Health Organization (WHO) admitting that the disease will "extend for one year longer than necessary" because poor countries are not getting the vaccines they need to immunize their populations
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WHO introduces team to investigate origin of coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced the composition of the team that will investigate the origin of SARSCOV-2, which causes Covid-19, as well as new infectious viruses that may emerge. The team is composed of 26 specialists from diverse fields such as epidemiology, animal health, ecology, clinical medicine, virology, molecular bilogy, other specialists. The...