Tag: WHO

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazil indigenous leaders call on WHO to set an emergency fund to protect their communities

  

  Indigenous leaders in Brazil have asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  China official media calls “Evil Pompeo” a lying clown

  

  China's state broadcaster CCTV on Monday attacked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's “insane and evasive remarks” over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, further fuelling Sino-US tensions.

• Monday, May 4th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  Beijing condemns US support for Taiwan to become a member of WHO

  

  China has condemned a US tweet backing Taiwan's push for participation at the United Nations as the global body works with its 193 member states to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, May 4th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  Bolsonaro claims WHO encourages homosexuality and masturbation among children

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said the World Health Organisation encourages homosexuality and masturbation among young children, his latest clash with an organization whose advice on social distancing and other anti-coronavirus measures he has repeatedly questioned.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  WHO warns, “Make no mistake: We have a long way to go. This virus will be with us for a long time”

  

  World Health Organization on Wednesday warned that the coronavirus crisis would not end any time soon, with many countries only in the early stages of the fight, as the global death toll surpassed 180,000.

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  WHO insists with bats; claims no evidence to suggest coronavirus was manipulated in Chinese lab

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests that the novel coronavirus originated in bats in China late last year and it was not manipulated or constructed in a lab.

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 10:05 UTC

  WHO defends its actions and insists it sounded the alarm on COVID-19 right from the start

  

  The World Health Organization, WHO, on Monday said that it sounded the alarm on COVID-19 right from the start and had hidden nothing from Washington about the deadly pandemic.

• Saturday, April 18th 2020 - 16:42 UTC

  Bolsonaro defends sacking health minister and insists in opening up the economy

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday defended his decision to restart economic activity in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, after sacking his health minister over differences in how to tackle the disease.

• Saturday, April 18th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Where to watch WHO’s global special concert ‘One World: Together At Home’

  

  From Eddie Vedder to Andrea Bocelli, and Paul McCartney to Maluma, artists from all over the world will play on the “One World: #TogetherAtHome,” a six-hour streamed and broadcasted music festival that will take place on Saturday organized by the World Health Organization (WHO).

• Saturday, April 18th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Beijing's advance in UN organizations as Trump's US gives up its predominance

  

  As President Donald Trump announces a halt in World Health Organization funding, accusing it of kowtowing to China over the coronavirus outbreak, Beijing is building on a well-established strategy of leveraging its global standing wherever the US lets go of the wheel.