Tag: WHO

• Saturday, June 20th 2020 - 11:05 UTC

  Europe working with US on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization

  

  European governments are working with the United States on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization, a top health official for a European country said, signalling that Europe shares some of the concerns that led Washington to say it would quit.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 07:09 UTC

  North and South America have four of the 10 worst Covid-19 hit countries

  

  The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst hit countries in the world.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 07:04 UTC

  WHO argues Brazil's hospitals coping with the virus, despite record death toll

  

  Brazil's COVID-19 death toll overtook Britain's on Friday to become the second-highest in the world with 41,828 dead, but the World Health Organization said the nation's health system was standing up to the pressure.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 12:47 UTC

  Brazil resumed publishing the country's total death toll from Covid-19

  

  Brazil's government resumed publishing the country's total death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, after facing accusations of trying to hide the magnitude of its raging health crisis.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  WHO's Americas branch PAHO calls on US to keep countries in the region combat the pandemic

  

  The World Health Organization's (WHO's) regional director for the Americas urged the United States on Tuesday to keep helping countries in the region to fight the novel coronavirus even as the Trump administration leaves the UN agency.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  WHO experts deny Covid-19 was losing potency, as asserted by Italian epidemiologist

  

  Two World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists said on Monday there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been losing potency.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Trump cuts relations with the World Health Organization, “a puppet organization of China”

  

  US President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the US relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus, saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  WHO alerts on tobacco industry exploitation of children and young people

  

  The World Health Organization is launching on Friday a new kit for school students aged 13-17 to alert them to the tobacco industry tactics used to hook them to addictive products. Every year the tobacco industry invests more than US$ 9 billion to advertise its products.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  PAHO growing concerns with the accelerating pandemic in Brazil, Peru and Chile

  

  International health authorities expressed concern on Tuesday over signs the spread of the new coronavirus is still accelerating in Brazil, Peru, and Chile. The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the regional office for the World Health Organization, has been monitoring the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  WHO promises a “swift review” data on hydroxychloroquine

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday promised a swift review of data on hydroxychloroquine, probably by mid-June, after safety concerns prompted the group to suspend the malaria drug's use in a trial on COVID-19 patients.