Tag: Michael Ryan

• Saturday, March 18th 2023 - 09:42 UTC

  WHO hopes to liken Covid-19 to seasonal flu this year

  

  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Covid-19 might soon be similar to seasonal flu in terms of the threat it means to human life, it was announced as the global agency hopes to further reduce its maximum alert level this year.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Now that billions have been vaccinated, how do we manage Covid-19 health care waste challenge?

  

  As hundreds of millions have been vaccinated against the pandemic, another challenge has emerged, tens of thousands of tons of extra medical waste from the response to COVID-19 has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and environmental health and exposing a dire need to improve waste management practices, according to a new WHO report.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Bolsonaro “welcomes” Omicron – angers WHO

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Wednesday said the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 was “welcome” in Brazil, because it “may point to the end of the pandemic.”

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 08:53 UTC

  WHO warns it is unrealistic to think the pandemic will be done by end of the year

  

  The World Health Organization warned on Monday that it is unrealistic to think the world will be done with the Covid-19 pandemic by the end of the year. WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said it might however be possible to take the tragedy out of the coronavirus crisis by reducing hospitalizations and deaths.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Coronavirus global death toll passed one million on Saturday

  

  The global death toll from the novel coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed 1 million on Sunday. The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions, and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil's jungles to America's biggest city New York.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 10:03 UTC

  WHO calls on Brazil to do more and integrate efforts at different levels of government

  

  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.

• Thursday, May 14th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  World will have to learn to live with Covid-19, warns World Health Organization

  

  The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday. As some countries around the world begin gradually easing lockdown restrictions imposed in a bid to stop the novel coronavirus from spreading, the WHO said it may never be wiped out entirely.