World Health Organization

Chinese are on march to prove their importance, are taking up vacuum that US created: Albright

Trump strikes China over virus, Hong Kong and student visas

12:32 am May 31, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump has announced that he would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization, end Hong Kong’s special trade status and suspend visas of Chinese graduate students suspected of conducting research on behalf of their government, escalating tensions with China that have surged during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has been expressing anger at the […]

Costa Rica seeks unity for COVID fight as WHO assembly looms

1:41 pm May 16, 2020

Geneva: Costa Rica’s president said Friday that COVID-19 can only be defeated if countries shun nationalism and aren’t selfish, urging access to diagnostics and treatment tools for everyone as a major meeting of the World Health Organization’s membership looms next week. Carlos Alvarado joined WHO officials for an online news conference to outline a worldwide […]

Sensex plummets 886 pts; Nifty cracks below 9,200

4:18 pm May 14, 2020

Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex plunged 886 points on Thursday, tracking heavy losses in index heavyweights Reliance Industries, HDFC twins, Infosys and ICICI Bank amid a selloff in global markets. Further, market players were disappointed as the immediate spend out of the government’s Rs 20 lakh crore fiscal stimulus package was seen to be relatively small, […]

As new clusters emerge, WHO warns virus may be here to stay

1:58 am May 14, 2020

Brussels: New coronavirus clusters have surfaced around the world as nations struggle to balance reopening economies and preventing a second wave of infections, while a top global health official warned Wednesday that COVID-19 could be around for a long time. Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic first began late last year, […]

EDMC kicks off month-long anti-dengue campaign

Fight against malaria could be set back 20 years, WHO warns

6:57 pm April 24, 2020

Cape Town: One of the hard lessons the World Health Organization learned during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was this: Other diseases can be forgotten and take a deadlier toll. The WHO is now warning that the battle against malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, where it already kills hundreds of thousands of people a year, […]