World Health Organization

Africa’s 43% jump in COVID-19 cases in week worries experts

11:49 pm April 23, 2020

Cape Town: Africa has registered a 43 per cent jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicentre of the global outbreak. Africa also has a “very, very limited” and very, very strained testing capacity, John […]

Costa Rica seeks unity for COVID fight as WHO assembly looms

WHO becoming tool of ‘Chinese propaganda’: US

3:50 pm April 22, 2020

Washington: The World Health Organization has become a tool of the “Chinese propaganda“, the Trump administration has alleged, asserting that the global health agency has lost all its credibility during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. US President Donald Trump recently announced he would put a hold on America’s funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), accusing […]

Vaccine needed to fully halt spread of COVID-19: WHO

12:44 am April 14, 2020

Geneva: The World Health Organization said on Monday that a safe and effective vaccine would be needed to fully halt the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 114,000 people worldwide. “Our global connectedness means the risk of re-introduction and resurgence of COVID19 will continue,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing […]

1.6 million French may be infected with virus: doctors’ union

12:25 am April 10, 2020

Paris: More than 1.6 million of France’s 67 million people may have been infected with the new coronavirus to date, according to a projection by general practitioners’ union MG France, based on doctors’ reports. The union said in a statement that 2,048 members from around the country who had participated in an online survey reported […]

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Trump announces to put a hold on WHO funding

3:20 pm April 8, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would put a hold on America’s funding to the World Health Organization, accusing it of becoming China-centric during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re […]