Tag: WHO

• Wednesday, December 1st 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  WHO says travel bans achieve little against Omicron strain

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday advised people aged over 60 or who suffer from comorbidities which could result in more serious cases of COVID-19 postponed all travel whenever possible in the light of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

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• Friday, November 26th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Europe under alert and WHO convenes emergency meeting as new starin of coronavirus detected

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested an emergency meeting due to the appearance of a new strain of the coronavirus in Hong Kong, Botswana and South Africa.

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• Monday, November 1st 2021 - 21:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro tells WHO boss he was the only leader under investigation for genocide regarding COVID-19

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro was recorded telling World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom he was the only head of state charged with crimes against humanity for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The conversation is said to have taken place on the sides of the G20 Summit in Rome.

• Saturday, October 16th 2021 - 06:57 UTC

  Tuberculosis deaths rise for the first time in more than a decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of global progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB) and for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths have increased, according to the World Health Organization’s 2021 Global TB report.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2021 - 07:13 UTC

  Macron and Tedros open ground for WHO academy in Lyon

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron, President and Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, broke ground on Monday for the WHO Academy’s campus in the French city of Lyon.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil to expand development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines

  

  While the World Health Organization (WHO) has suspended the approval process of the Russian-developed Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has chosen Argentina and Brazil to further manufacture mRNA immunizers.

• Monday, September 20th 2021 - 08:27 UTC

  Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing

  

  The World Health Organization announced the appointment of The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing. Mr Brown is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depression through his stewardship of the 2009 London G20 summit. He mobilized world leaders to commit an additional US$ 1.1 trillion to restore credit, growth and jobs to help the world economy through the global financial crisis.

• Friday, September 10th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  BRICS issues New Delhi Declaration calling for investigations on coronavirus to be free from political influences

  

  Leaders of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Thursday agreed on the use of science-based methods to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19.

• Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentina announces issuance of Digital Vaccination Credential

  

  The Government of Argentina has announced that effective Sept. 6, nationals going abroad shall be able to produce the Digital Vaccination Credential (CVD), available through the Mi Argentina app, as an official travel document.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  WHO names coronavirus Colombian strain “Mu” and says it is “of interest”

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a new SARS-Cov-2 variant which has been named “Mu” and was first detected in Colombia last January.