Tag: global health emergency

• Wednesday, August 14th 2024 - 21:31 UTC

  WHO declares global public emergency due to mpox outbreak in Africa

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Wednesday its highest global alert level given a surge in the number of cases of monkeypox in Africa and the threat of a new pandemic it poses. This time around the virus has spread rapidly through 13 countries in Africa, including regions where cases had never been reported before.

• Friday, January 24th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Coronavirus outbreak has become a global health emergency; WHO cautious, “it's a bit too early”

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was “a bit too early” to declare a new coronavirus a global health emergency as China put millions of people on lockdown amid an outbreak that has killed 25 people and infected more than 800.