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Dec 04, 2020 02:49 PM IST "We are looking very closely into the use of technology in this Covid-19 response and one of them is how can we work with members states towards something called an e-vaccination certificate," WHO Europe expert Siddhartha Datta told an online press briefing Thursday.
Nov 27, 2020 01:10 PM IST Now with hopes hanging on COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization is warning that a wave of fake news and misinformation may jeopardise roll-out of immunisation programmes meant to bring an end to the suffering.
Nov 26, 2020 09:32 PM IST health campaigners are worried that Africa will find itself near the back of the queue for COVID-19 vaccines after wealthier nations signed a raft of bilateral vaccine supply deals with pharmaceutical companies.
Nov 26, 2020 04:44 PM IST The World Health Organisation (WHO) said regular physical activity, restrained due to the COVID-19 pandemic, helps in managing heart diseases, diabetes, and cancer
Nov 26, 2020 09:18 AM IST And people of all ages must compensate for growing sedentary behaviour with physical activity to ward off disease and add years to their lives, the WHO said, launching its "Every Move Counts" campaign.
Nov 14, 2020 11:48 AM IST US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced Monday that their prospective vaccine had proven 90 percent effective in preventing Covid-19 infections in ongoing final phase trials involving more than 40,000 people.
Nov 13, 2020 08:00 PM IST The funds for an advance market commitment (AMC) will allow the COVAX facility to buy an initial one billion vaccine doses for 92 eligible countries which would not otherwise be able to afford them.
Nov 09, 2020 07:56 PM IST Speaking to WHO's main annual assembly, which resumed on Monday after being cut short in May, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also hailed the election of Joe Biden as the next US president, voicing hope it could signal tighter global cooperation to end the pandemic.
Nov 05, 2020 06:55 PM IST The WHO draft document, seen by Reuters and dated October 30, says the priorities are to secure monoclonal antibodies in a tight market and to boost purchases and distribution of cheap steroid dexamethasone, of which it has already booked nearly 3 million courses of treatment for poorer countries.
Oct 24, 2020 01:01 PM IST Even countries that avoided severe outbreaks during Europe's first wave of contagion in the spring have watched their case numbers surge, with Germany's death toll passing 10,000 on Saturday.
Oct 20, 2020 01:03 PM IST Health Ministry is yet to revise the existing protocol for COVID-19 treatment, which advises the use of remdesivir as an investigational therapy for treatment.
Oct 20, 2020 07:54 AM IST The WHO's Europe region, which includes Russia, has recorded up to 8,500 deaths in the past week - and half the countries have seen a 50 percent rise in cases, Mike Ryan, the body's top emergency expert, told a news conference.
Oct 19, 2020 09:15 AM IST Backing India, South Africa's proposal to WTO, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ending a pandemic starts with collaboration.
Oct 17, 2020 10:23 AM IST The results of the WHO's solidarity trial found that remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir and interferon had little or no effect on 28-day mortality.
Oct 15, 2020 05:40 PM IST Global Handwashing Day is observed on October 15 each year to raise awareness and highlight the importance of handwashing as an effective means of disease prevention. This year it marks a critical reminder for the world that this simple, cost-effective practice can save lives, said the WHO.
Oct 13, 2020 07:02 PM IST India's COVID-19 tracing app was launched by PM Modi on April 3. It was developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Oct 08, 2020 07:30 PM IST In August, a two-member team from the WHO which visited China completed the groundwork for the probe into the animal source and reservoirs of the COVID-19 which first emerged in Wuhan in December last year and later became a global pandemic, creating the worst health crisis across the world.
Oct 05, 2020 06:26 PM IST Dr. Michael Ryan, speaking to a special session of the WHO’s 34-member executive board focusing on COVID-19, said the figures vary from urban to rural, and between different groups, but that ultimately it means “the vast majority of the world remains at risk.”
Oct 05, 2020 05:32 PM IST WHO warned that mental health had been overlooked in the crisis, pointing to a survey conducted between June and August that revealed severe disruptions to services in 93 countries.
Oct 01, 2020 08:00 AM IST The World Health Organization said open borders would help fight disease. Experts, and a global treaty, emphatically agreed. But the scientific evidence was never behind them.
Sep 29, 2020 10:58 AM IST Rolling out quicker COVID-19 testing in poorer countries aims to help health care workers get a better grip on where coronavirus is circulating, in hopes of following up with containment and other measures to stop it.
Sep 27, 2020 10:37 AM IST World Health Organization's chief has lauded PM Modi's assurance that India will use its vaccine production capacity in helping nations fight COVID-19, saying the pandemic can be defeated only by mobilising resources for common good.
Sep 26, 2020 08:36 AM IST The death toll, about nine months since the novel coronavirus was first discovered in China, is nearing the 10-lakh mark.
Sep 24, 2020 06:14 PM IST The news surfaced after the health commission of the Chinese city of Lanzhou announced that a leak in a biopharmaceutical company last year caused the outbreak of brucellosis disease.
Sep 22, 2020 10:23 PM IST According to Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan, Wuhan's wet market is just a smokescreen created by the Chinese Communist Party.
