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The legally binding pact is intended to shore up the world's defences against new pathogens after the COVID-19 pandemic killed millions of people in 2020-22
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"The current environment in Gaza, including overcrowding in shelters and severely damaged water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure, which facilitates fecal-oral transmission, create ideal conditions for further spread of poliovirus," the WHO statement said.
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Over 400 cases of the unidentified illness — marked by fever, headache, cough, runny nose, and body aches — have been reported since late October
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Clade 1b strain of the mpox virus was first identified in the eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Mpox latest news; According to the official guidelines issued by the health ministry, three Delhi hospitals have been designated as the nodal centres.
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World Mental Health Day is observed every year on October 10 to raise awareness about mental health and well-being.
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According to the ministry, the summit will take into account the vast experience and expertise of the country in traditional medicine
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A new pact is a priority for WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who called it a "generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect" at the U.N. agency's annual assembly.
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Data by the World Health Organisation suggests that high intake of non-sugar sweeteners has been linked to obesity, which affects nearly 40 percent of the global adult population and millions of children
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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has also warned of the ongoing impact of Long Covid, which provokes a long line of often severe and debilitating symptoms that can drag on for months or years.
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"There is a huge biological risk associated with the occupation of the central public health lab... by one of the fighting parties," Nima Saeed Abid, the WHO's representative in Sudan, said.
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IndiGo shared videos of its pilots, cabin crew and ground staff members working out on World Health Day 2023.
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It will send a high-level delegation to coordinate its response as well as three flights with medical supplies, one of which is already on its way to Istanbul, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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The committee will also advise and recommend DCGI about further course of action.
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He stressed, "it is still a long way off, and the tunnel is still dark, with many obstacles that could trip us up if we don't take care."
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said COVID-19 infections dropped everywhere in the world while deaths decreased everywhere except for Southeast Asia, where they climbed by 15 percent, and in the Western Pacific, where they rose by 3 percent.
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India has so far reported 10 cases of monkeypox and one fatality from the infection.
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The A.2 strain, which was detected in the US last year, has not been linked to major clusters. The current outbreak is being driven by the B.1 strain of monkeypox virus, Dr Pragya Yadav, a senior scientist at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) and lead author of the study, said.
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The samples of the girl have been collected and would be sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune for testing, he said.
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WHO Europe has forecast just over 27,000 monkeypox cases in 88 countries by Aug. 2, up from 17,800 cases in nearly 70 countries at the latest count.
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"The sudden appearance of monkeypox in many countries at the same time suggests there may have been undetected transmission for some time,": World Health Organization
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Many of the cases are not linked to travel to the continent. As a result, the cause of this outbreak is unclear, although health authorities have said that there is potentially some degree of community spread.
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As per the UN body, there were 14.9 mn excess deaths associated with COVID-19 by end-2021. The official count of deaths directly attributable to COVID-19 and reported to WHO in that period -- from January 2020 to the end of December 2021 -- is slightly more than 5.4 million. This means that the estimated toll is 9.5 million higher than the recorded fatalities.
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World Health Day 2022: The choice of this theme has been driven by the coronavirus pandemic, pollution and an increasing incidence of diseases, WHO said.
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Covid variant XE: UK’s Health Security Agency has said that at present, there is not enough evidence to draw conclusions about the variant's transmissibility and severity and how effective vaccine are against it.
