World Health Organization

China will never seek expansion, has no intention to fight either ‘Cold War’ or ‘hot war’: Xi

11:54 pm September 22, 2020

United Nations: China will never seek hegemony, expansion, or sphere of influence, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday and said Beijing has no intention to fight either a “Cold War” or a “hot war” with any country. Xi also said that China will continue to narrow the differences and resolve disputes with others through negotiations, in comments that came […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

China must be held accountable for unleashing plague of ‘China virus’ onto the world: Trump

10:16 pm September 22, 2020

United Nations : US President Donald Trump blasted China on Tuesday for “unleashing”” the plague of the “China virus”” onto the world, demanding that the United Nations must hold Beijing accountable for failing to contain the coronavirus that has killed nearly one million people across the world, including 200,000 Americans. “75 years after the end of World War II and the founding of […]

WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soon

Members named to panel probing WHO’s pandemic response

8:42 pm September 3, 2020

London: An independent panel appointed by the World Health Organization to review its coordination of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic will have full access to any internal U.N. agency documents, materials and emails necessary, the panel said Thursday as it begins the probe. The panel’s co-chairs, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former […]

Moscow announces advanced trials for new COVID-19 vaccine

11:46 pm August 26, 2020

Moscow: The mayor of Moscow invited residents Wednesday to join trials of a coronavirus vaccine that Russia approved for use earlier this month in what officials described as a breakthrough on par with the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957. The world’s first vaccine against the coronavirus to receive a government go-ahead has caused unease […]

India drops plasma therapy from COVID-19 management guidelines

UN cautions that virus plasma treatment still experimental

8:16 pm August 25, 2020

London: The World Health Organization on Monday cautioned that using blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to treat other patients is still considered an experimental therapy, voicing the concern as a U.S. boost for the treatment has many scientists afraid formal studies will be derailed. On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized what’s called “emergency use” […]