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In Gaza the best medicine is Peace: WHO Chief
GENEVA: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, DG of WHO, talking to the journalists at a Presser held here on Wednesday (12th June, 2024) has informed that more than eight thousand children aged…
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WHO Chief On Health System Of Gaza
UNITED NATIONS: Amid escalating Israeli attacks on Gaza, World Health Organization (WHO) Chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Friday (10th of November, 2023) that half of the hospitals in in the…
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WHO chief endorses Olympics as ‘a celebration of hope’
GENEVA: The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has welcomed the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a chance to spread “hope to…
WHO warns virus crisis not over as vaccine rollout approaches
WASHINGTON: The World Health Organization has warned that vaccines will be no magic bullet for the coronavirus crisis as nations gear up for a massive rollout to tackle surging infections.…
Malaria gains at risk from coronavirus pandemic: UN health agency
UNITED NATIONS: Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic could set back the fight against the mosquito-borne disease even further, the…
WHO warns malaria fight flat-lining
GENEVA: Progress in eliminating malaria has stalled in recent years, the World Health Organization said Monday, with more than 400,000 people once again estimated to have died from the disease…
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WHO chief in quarantine after contact tests positive for Covid-19
GENEVA: The World Health Organization chief said late Sunday that he was self-quarantining after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for Covid-19, but stressed he had no…
China tests entire city for virus as WHO slams herd immunity idea
BEIJING: China rushed Tuesday to test an entire city of nine million within days after a minor coronavirus outbreak, as the WHO warned that letting the pathogen run free to…
UN chief calls one million coronavirus worldwide death toll ‘agonizing milestone’
UNITED NATIONS: With over one million lives having succumbed to coronavirus globally, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that while the “agonizing milestone” is a “mind-numbing figure”, the world must never…
Countries lifting coronavirus curbs too soon a ‘recipe for disaster’, WHO warns
UNITED NATIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged States to continue implementing safety measures to control the spread of the coronavirus, such as limiting public gatherings and protecting vulnerable…
WHO chief brands virus protection gear graft ‘murder’
GENEVA: Corrupt practices around medical safety gear for COVID-19 health workers is tantamount to "murder", the World Health Organization chief said Friday. In strong remarks, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that…
WHO chief warns against coronavirus ‘vaccine nationalism’, urges support for fair access
UNITED NATIONS: Warning against “vaccine nationalism” in the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has again underlined the importance of global solidarity in…
WHO’s emergency panel reviews pandemic
GENEVA: Six months after sounding its top alarm over the new coronavirus outbreak, the WHO's emergency committee meets for a fourth time Friday to assess the raging pandemic. The World…
‘Long, hard road ahead’ to beat coronavirus: warns WHO
UNITED NATIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that countries that do not use every option available to them to tackle coronavirus face a "long, hard road ahead" to…
WHO says pandemic ‘not even close’ to over as toll passes 500,000
GENEVA: The coronavirus pandemic is "not even close to being over", the WHO warned, as the global death toll passed half a million and cases surged in Latin America and…
WHO says global COVID-19 cases surpass 10 mln
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that global COVID-19 cases had reached 10,004,707, after the records of daily new cases had been refreshed repeatedly for the past few…
Over $30 billion needed to develop coronavirus tests, treatments, vaccines: WHO
UNITED NATIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners fighting the coronavirus pandemic said Friday it needs $31.3 billion over the next 12 months to develop and roll out tests,…
Coronavirus cases set to hit 10 million mark worldwide: WHO chief
UNITED NATIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said he expected the number of coronavirus cases around the world, now at about 9.1 million, to reach…
Virus cases top nine million as WHO says pandemic ‘accelerating’
DUBAI: Global coronavirus infections topped nine million as the World Health Organization warned the pandemic was accelerating and Saudi Arabia announced it would scale back the Hajj Islamic pilgrimage next…
Trump again threatens to freeze WHO funding
WASHINGTON: President of the United States (POTUS) Donald J. Trump has once again threatened to permanently freeze funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) unless "substantive improvements" were made within…
COVID 19: WHO warns the world still not ‘out of the woods’
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the world needed to keep stamping Coronavirus out until there was a proper vaccine. In a…
COVID-19: WHO issues criteria to lift lockdowns
WASHINGTON: World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a six-point criteria for the countries in order to guide them before they lift lockdowns for COVID-19. During a press briefing on Monday,…
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UN chief underscores need for universal health coverage, in message on World Health Day
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has spotlighted the importance of universal health coverage to mark the World Health Day. In his message for the day, which was observed on…