Tag: World Health Organization (WHO)

• Tuesday, October 12th 2021 - 15:25 UTC

  WHO/COP26 Special report on Climate Change and Health for Glasgow climate summit

  

  Countries must set ambitious national climate commitments if they are to sustain a healthy and green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Sunday, September 5th 2021 - 07:24 UTC

  What’s the Mu variant? And will we keep seeing more concerning variants?

  

  By Paul Griffin (*) - This week the World Health Organization named a new “variant of interest” of the coronavirus, called the Mu variant. It was first found in Colombia in January 2021 and has been found in about 39 countries so far.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 21:04 UTC

  WHO calls on countries to depoliticize investigation into origin of Covid 19

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) called on countries to depoliticize the investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and how it jumped to humans, pressing for more raw data to review and suggesting that more can be done within its current framework to track lab safety around the world, including China.

• Friday, August 6th 2021 - 08:09 UTC

  Uruguay will not change vaccination plans despite WHO's request

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Thursday denied his country was to change course in its coronavirus immunization drive despite the World Health Organization's (WHO) requested that countries with a surplus of vaccines should donate them before applying the third dose.

• Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 07:45 UTC

  China rejects any further investigation to COVID-19 origins at the Wuhan lab

  

  China openly rejected the World Health Organization request for more information, and transparency, regarding an investigation into the origins of the COVID 19 pandemic.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2021 - 07:32 UTC

  June 3, we celebrate World Bicycle Day

  

  Today June 3 we celebrate World Bicycle Day on June 3. A United Nations designated day, World Bicycle Day is observed as cycling has tremendous health benefits for all age groups, according to experts.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2021 - 07:16 UTC

  Biden expected to announce the distribution of 80 million coronavirus vaccines

  

  US president Jose Biden is expected to announce this Thursday Washington's plan for the distribution of 80 million coronavirus vaccines globally. The announcement was done by Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Costa Rica.

• Tuesday, June 1st 2021 - 16:27 UTC

  WHO renames coronavirus strains to avoid bias against certain countries

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to rename the known variants of the SARS-Cov-2 virus using Greek letters, in a move to avoid biases against people from specific parts of the world, it was announced.

• Friday, May 28th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Family Planning in Latin America threatened as women and pregnant mothers prove most vulnerable to Covid

  

  The coronavirus pandemic is affecting women more than men in Latin America and pregnant mothers above all, threatening to roll back 20 years of advances in access to family planning, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.

• 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.