Tag: WHO

Thursday, February 2nd 2023 - 10:00 UTC
Brazil's Dr Jarbas Barbosa elected as WHO Regional Director for the Americas

The World Health Organization, WHO Executive Board, currently holding its 152nd meeting in Geneva, has appointed Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. as Regional Director for the Americas effective February 2023.
Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 18:43 UTC
WHO, US extend Covid-19 emergency

The US Government announced Monday that the Covid-19 emergency is to be extended until May. The decision came after a World Health Organization (WHO) panel issued a recommendation not to change the current sanitary status given that SARS-CoV- 2 remains a “permanently established pathogen” in humans and animals.
Friday, January 27th 2023 - 09:54 UTC
WHO Committee to declare end of Covid-19 emergency?

An Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization convening Friday might decide to declare the end of the “public health emergency” stemming from Covid-19. The committee's decision is to be announced on Jan. 30.
Tuesday, January 24th 2023 - 18:19 UTC
WHO issues warning on lethal cough syrup

The World Health Organization Tuesday issued a warning against a deadly cough syrup that has already killed some 300 children in 7 countries.
Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 20:06 UTC
WHO favors return of facemasks for long-haul passenger flights

The World Health Organization Wednesday issued a recommendation whereby countries should foster the wearing of facemasks on long-haul flights amid a growing spread of the XBB.1.5 subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron strain.
Monday, June 20th 2022 - 10:15 UTC
WHO lifts “endemic” distinctions regarding monkeypox

The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to suppress all distinctions between endemic and non-endemic countries regarding monkeypox, it was announced Saturday. The move seeks to facilitate the development of a “unified response” to the virus.
Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 09:20 UTC
WHO and UNICEF warn conditions ripe for serious outbreaks of measles

An increase in measles cases in January and February 2022 is a worrying sign of a heightened risk for the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases and could trigger larger outbreaks, particularly of measles affecting millions of children in 2022, warn WHO and UNICEF.
Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 08:09 UTC
WHO warns of antibiotic resistant Salmonella in Belgian chocolate and all Kinder products

On 27 March 2022, WHO was informed by the IHR National Focal Point of the United Kingdom of a widely distributed cluster of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) with an unidentified source. Molecular typing confirmed isolation of the bacteria S.
Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 07:55 UTC
WHO warns against lowering guard regarding COVID-19

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tuesday pointed out that despite an unprecedented low in COVID-19 deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic back in March 2020, emergencies still surfacing were not regarded presently as they should.
Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 09:40 UTC
Billions of people breathe unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, WHO report

Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits and threatens their health. A record number of over 6000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but the people living in them are still breathing unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, with people in low and middle-income countries suffering the highest exposures.