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WHO chief Tedros to be confirmed for 2nd term after no opposition

FILE IMAGE - World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives at the Élysée Palace for the inaugural dinner of the Paris Peach Forum as World Leaders and dignitaries arrive in Paris for the first day on Nov. 11, 202 LONDON - WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N.

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Covid-19: Saudi Arabia bans travel to 16 countries including India

COVID-19 death toll to 5,24,413.

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North Korea Covid-19 cases surge, WHO says higher likelihood of new variants spread. see details

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North Korea COVID outbreak raises new variant concerns: WHO warns

Certainly, it's worrying if countries ... are not using the tools that are now available, said WHO

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India daily Covid-19 case count increases to 2,858; Delhi accounts for 899 cases

India on Saturday reported 2,858 Covid-19 cases and 11 deaths in 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said in its report. With this, the caseload has surged to 43,119,112, while the active cases were declined by 508 in 24 hour span. Altogether India has a total of 18,096 active Covid cases as of May 14. The daily recovery has increased to 3,355 while cumulatively 4,25,76,815 have been recuperated to date, accounting for 98.74% of the total cases.

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Emergency phase of pandemic is not over…: WHO data on current COVID situation worldwide

And so while some countries may have been able to end the emergency phase of this pandemic, we don't see that in all countries worldwide. So we need to continue to fight this at a global level."-@mvankerkhove of @WHO on 10 May. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/bAPyng2Kno

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WHO and MPP announce agreement with NIH for COVID-19 health technologies

WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) today finalized a licensing agreement with the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of several innovative therapeutics, early-stage vaccines and diagnostic tools for COVID-19.

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China at risk of 16 lakh coronavirus deaths if covid zero policy is abandoned

Omicron wave of coronavirus that would swamp intensive care capacity.

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WHO chief says China's zero-Covid policy not 'sustainable'

The head of the World Health Organization has said China's zero-tolerance Covid-19 policy is not sustainable given what is known of the disease, in rare public comments by the UN agency on a government's handling of the virus.

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COVID-19 pandemic has killed nearly 15M globally, including indirect deaths: WHO

World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million died directly or indirectly from COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021.WHO provided a range of 13.3 million deaths to 16.6 million between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec.

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WHO estimates nearly 1.49 crore excess Covid-19 deaths in 2020-21, almost half in India

died of Covid-19 as well as those who died as an indirect result of the outbreak, including people who could not access healthcare for other conditions.

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Nearly 15M deaths associated with COVID-19, World Health Organization says

LONDON - The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.In a report released on Thursday, the U.N.

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14.9 million excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021

New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million).

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Declaring victory over COVID…not fair: WHO official on factors that can delay fight against pandemic

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Still in middle of COVID pandemic: WHO on how to be ready for what comes next

#COVID19 pandemicReasons include:➡️Current & previous control strategies➡️Current epi & variant emergence➡️Pop demographics & severity risk factors➡️Pop level immunity… https://t.co/s2xDN10sXQ

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Next COVID variant can be cause of concern: WHO warning amid too many variants circulating

#COVID19 has practical, reliable and available solutions. Far too many people risk severe illness, death, LongCovid, loss of futures and luckily due to #Omicron. Access, equity, rational use of these tools is possible. @WHO pic.twitter.com/LSbdc05J2D

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World is ‘blind’ to COVID spread, WHO warns. Where does Canada stand?

World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to maintain surveillance of coronavirus infections, saying the world was “blind” to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates.“As many countries reduce testing, WHO is receiving less and less information about transmission and sequencing,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference at the U.N. agency’s headquarters in Geneva.“This makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution.” Canada lacks robust COVID-19 detection system amid 6th wave.

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On Covid-19 transmission, WHO chief says we are 'increasingly blind'. Read here

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday urged countries to maintain surveillance of Covid-19 infections, saying we are "blind" to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates.

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Covid new wave, BA.2 variant; Things WHO said on present pandemic situation

Covid-19 pandemic was a long way off, citing a rise in cases in its latest weekly data.

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India calls for aggressive genome sequencing as Covid cases spike in Asia, Europe

Covid-19 cases are spiking in some Asian and European countries again.

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Just tip of iceberg: WHO chief cites key reasons for massive COVID surge in Asia. Read here

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asserted after several weeks of declines, reported cases of COVID19 are once again increasing globally, esp. in parts of Asia.

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Alberta surpasses 4,000 COVID-19 deaths 2 years after pandemic began

COVID-19 pandemic on Friday.More than 4,000 Albertans have lost their lives to the disease since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.In the last 24 hours, 11 deaths were reported to Alberta Health. The province’s death toll from COVID-19 has now reached 4,003.The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 declined slightly overnight, to 1,045 people.

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‘Wrong anniversary’: Two years since declaration of Covid-19 pandemic, WHO voices frustration

World Health Organization first declared Covid-19 as a pandemic. But the UN health body has voiced its frustration at people marking 11 March as the second anniversary of the public health emergency, stating that the real alarm came six weeks earlier.

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WHO takes a U-turn on Covid-19 booster shot, backs it after ‘moratorium’ call

WHO) has said that it strongly supported "urgent and broad access" to booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines, capping a reversal of the UN agency's repeated insistence last year that boosters weren't necessary for healthy people and contributed to vaccine inequity.

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WHO says COVID-19 boosters are needed, reversing previous guidance

GENEVA - An expert group convened by the World Health Organization said Tuesday it "strongly supports urgent and broad access" to booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine amid the global spread of omicron, capping a reversal of the U.N. agency’s repeated insistence last year that boosters weren't necessary for healthy people and contributed to vaccine inequity.In a statement, WHO said its expert group concluded that immunization with authorized COVID-19 vaccines provide high levels of protection against severe disease and death amid the continuing spread of the hugely contagious omicron variant.

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Donors making a difference: In Ukraine emergency

WHO has issued an appeal for funding to support Ukraine’s health services and care for the country’s refugees. To learn more, or to donate, visit the WHO Foundation.

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COVID-19 pandemic triggers 25% increase in prevalence of anxiety and depression worldwide

In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%, according to a scientific brief released by the World Health Organization (WHO) today. The brief also highlights who has been most affected and summarizes the effect of the pandemic on the availability of mental health services and how this has changed during the pandemic.

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Moving forward on goal to boost local pharmaceutical production, WHO establishes global biomanufacturing training hub in Republic of Korea

The World Health Organization (WHO), the Republic of Korea and the WHO Academy today announced the establishment of a global biomanufacturing training hub that will serve all low- and middle-income countries wishing to produce biologicals, such as vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies and cancer treatments. The move comes after the successful establishment of a global mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub in South Africa.

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Is Covid-19 in its final stages? Moderna CEO thinks so. Read here

CNBC, he said, "I think that is a reasonable scenario." “There’s an 80% chance that as omicron evolves or SarsCov-2 virus evolves, we are going to see less and less virulent viruses," the Moderna CEO said.

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South Africa’s mRNA hub progress is foundation for self-reliance

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of he World Health Organization (WHO), Buti Manamela, Deputy Dr Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology of South Africa, Dr Joe Phaahla, Minister of Health of South Africa and Meryame Kitir, Minister of Development Cooperation and Urban Policy of Belgium today visit a number of public and private sector partners that are collaborating to develop and build WHO’s global mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub in South Africa.

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'Covid isn't finished with us' - WHO seeks global cooperation

The World Health Organization has called for enhanced global collaboration to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries and high-income countries should provide financial support to help global efforts against the raging pandemic.

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FIFA and WHO reiterate call on world to #ACTogether to end COVID-19 pandemic

FIFA is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to encourage football fans, world leaders and policymakers to #ACTogether to end the COVID-19 pandemic, with a special campaign running throughout the FIFA Club World Cup 2021™ in Abu Dhabi.“Football provides a unique platform to convey positive impactful messages for society,” said FIFA President Gianni Infantino. “Health comes first and during the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021, FIFA is united with all participating clubs to highlight the need for equitable access to tools to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide. Teamwork is essential, a

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What are potential future scenarios of Covid-19 spread? WHO answers

next variant of concern will most likely be more transmissible as compared to Omicron because it will have to overtake the strains that are currently circulating, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on Sunday.

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'Premature' to declare victory over Covid – WHO

The World Health Organization chief has warned that it is too early for countries to either declare victory over Covid-19 or give up attempts to halt transmission.

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WHO top official rings alarm: 'Concerned about increase in COVID deaths'

World Health Organisation officials on Tuesday said that the increase in the number of COVID-related fatalities is quite concerning. This should not be happening when we have public health tools that can reduce the spread & tools (diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines) that can save lives now, said Maria Van Kerkhove, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist; COVID-19 Technical Lead at WHO.

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‘Omicron far worse than..’, top US health expert cautions amid record COVID infections

Omicron is FAR worse than the original strain of SARS-CoV2

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WHO warns pandemic 'nowhere near over' as France, Germany post record cases

The World Health Organization has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, as France, Germany and Brazil posted new records of infections in the past 24 hours.

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WHO says covid pandemic 'nowhere near over' as France, Germany post record cases

Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, as France, Germany and Brazil posted new records of infections in the past 24 hours.

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COVID-19 burden of illness may be plateauing regionally: MLHU

COVID-19 situation on Tuesday, but says residents can’t let their guard down if they want to slow down the virus’ spread.During a media briefing hosted by the Middlesex-London Health Unit, acting medical officer of health Dr. Alex Summers said that while “COVID rates continue to be high in our region… some early indications are consistently suggesting that we are seeing a plateau in the burden of illness in our community.“It is important to note that the rates of COVID-19 and the burden of illness in our community remains exceptionally high and higher than it was prior to any wave.” Announcement on Ontario COVID restrictions coming this week, official says The suggestion of a potential plateau is nothing new.Last week, Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table scientific director Dr.

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COVID-19: WHO reflects on 2-year anniversary of 1st recorded coronavirus outbreak

World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reflected Wednesday on the two-year anniversary of the first recorded coronavirus outbreak, when China first reported a cluster of “viral pneumonia” cases in the city of Wuhan on Dec 31.

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Dr Ayoade Alakija appointed WHO Special Envoy for the ACT-Accelerator

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, has appointed Dr. Ayoade Alakija as WHO Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator). Dr Alakija joins former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt, WHO’s current Special Envoy for ACT-A, in this role.

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Omicron COVID-19 variant has spread to 57 countries, number expected to increase: WHO

World Health Organization director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that the Omicron COVID-19 variant has now spread to 57 countries and that number is expected to increase.

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World Health Assembly agrees to launch process to develop historic global accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response

In a consensus decision aimed at protecting the world from future infectious diseases crises, the World Health Assembly today agreed to kickstart a global process to draft and negotiate a convention, agreement or other international instrument under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.

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COVID-19: Omicron variant poses “very high” global risk, WHO warns

The COVID-19 Omicron variant poses a very high risk of infection “surges” that could have “severe consequences” in some parts of the world, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday.

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Omicron shows need for global accord on pandemics, WHO chief says

GENEVA - The World Health Organization on Monday is pushing for an international accord to help prevent and fight future pandemics amid the emergence of a worrying new omicron COVID-19 variant.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said many uncertainties remain about just how transmissible and severe infection by the highly mutated omicron might be.Tedros joined leaders like outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera for a long-planned and largely virtual special session of the U.N.

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Empowering heroes: WHO works to support and strengthen the world's health workforce

“The backbone of every health system is its workforce–the people who deliver the services on which we all rely. COVID-19 is has demonstrated just how much we rely on our health workers, and how vulnerable we all are when they who protect our health are themselves unprotected,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry hit out at world leaders for not ending Covid

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry co-signed a letter with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a bid to get the “wealthiest” countries to help vaccinate the world’s population and end the COVID-19 pandemic.Last month, the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex announced that they had partnered with the WHO in order to open a “dialogue on the urgent need to achieve global vaccine equity.”In a letter co-signed by the WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the former royals demanded leaders from richer nations that will be present at this year’s G20 summit, to “end the Covid crisis” by “working to vaccinate the world's population”.

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Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Pen Powerful Open Letter About COVID-19 Vaccine Equity To World Leaders At G20 Summit

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are continuing their pursuit for COVID-19 vaccine equity.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0