Tag: World Health Organization (WHO)

Friday, January 1st 2021 - 22:35 UTC
WHO Director General New Year message: COVID-19 one year later

As people around the world celebrated New Year's Eve 12 months ago, a new global threat emerged. Since that moment, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken so many lives and caused massive disruption to families, societies and economies all over the world.
Friday, January 1st 2021 - 22:14 UTC
WHO issues emergency use validation for the Pfizer vaccines and emphasizes need for equitable global access

The World Health Organization (WHO) listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the first to receive emergency validation from WHO since the outbreak began a year ago.
Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
New variant of Covid-19 has emerged in UK, reports WHO

The World Health Organization is aware of a new variant of Covid-19 that has emerged in Britain, but there is no evidence the strain behaves differently to existing types of the virus, it said on Monday.
Sunday, December 6th 2020 - 08:35 UTC
WHO warns that vaccines do not mean the pandemic has come to an end

Recent progress on Covid 19 vaccines is positive but the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned this has led to a growing perception that the pandemic has come to an end, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.
Monday, June 15th 2020 - 07:20 UTC
New coronavirus victim in Chile: the Health minister over difference in death toll numbers

Chile's health minister resigned on Saturday amid controversy over the country's official coronavirus death toll, as the pandemic hits the nation hard despite quarantine measures in the capital for more than a month. The departure of Jaime Mañalich was announced by President Sebastian Piñera.
Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 14:20 UTC
Bolsonaro threatens to pull Brazil out of WHO, a “partisan political organization”

President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 13:43 UTC
Leading medical publications involved in major scientific “blooper” regarding hydroxychloroquine

An influential study that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients has been withdrawn a week after it led to major trials being halted, adding to the confusion about a malaria drug championed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Thursday, May 7th 2020 - 10:42 UTC
Argentina has more reported cases of dengue (25.000) than of coronavirus (5,200)

Argentina officially has 5.208 COVID 19 confirmed cases with a death toll of 273 since the pandemic broke out. However the country is suffering from even more acute disease infection, the mosquito-transmitted dengue, with some 25.000 confirmed cases, and of which 5.601 in the last three weeks.
Tuesday, April 28th 2020 - 08:20 UTC
Coronavirus pandemic “far from over”, warns WHO and points to insufficient health services

The coronavirus pandemic is “far from over” and is still disrupting normal health services, especially life-saving immunization for children in the poorest countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 13:36 UTC
“Greg Mortimer” crew members and medical chief officer demand repatriation: “we also have a home country”

The last cruise of “Greg Mortimer” when it left Ushuaia on March 15th was an invitation to disaster, and now “we are asking for a humanitarian corridor to take us, as they did with passengers, to our home countries”, said Mauricio Usme, chief medical officer on board the Aurora Expeditions vessel.