WHO on Thursday said that at least 12 people have been killed and 34 people have been injured in at least 43 attacks on health care facilities in Ukraine amid intensified attacks by Russia
A flow of medical gear and equipment, including trauma kits, is reaching Ukraine to prop up a health care system grappling with a shortage of supplies amid Russia's invasion, the WHO said on Monday
The introduction of SARS-CoV-2 to wildlife could result in the establishment of animal reservoirs, which may, result in the emergence of a new virus variant, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said
The new policy, officials said, will enable poor nations to manufacture inexpensive vaccines and therapeutics that are developed in the US
The report revealed that life expectancy in India, as a result, has been shortened by about 1.5 years
WHO warned on Wednesday of a sharp increase in the prevalence of anxiety and depression related to the Covid-19 pandemic, caused largely by social isolation, young people and women are the worst hit
The Western Pacific was the only region where COVID-19 increased, with about a third more infections than the previous week
Ukraine is suffering from dangerously low medical oxygen supplies due to the ongoing invasion by Russian forces, and may run out of it within 24 hours, warns the World Health Organization (WHO).
Although global infections have fallen about 20 per cent this week compared with last week, Maria Van Kerkhove said the decline "may not be real", because of the reduction in testing
The Omicron variant of concern is currently the dominant variant circulating globally, accounting for nearly all sequences reported to GISAID (an open access database), said the WHO in a statement
A Japanese team led by researchers from the University of Tokyo found that similar to BA.1, BA.2 subvariant of Omicron appears to largely escape the immunity induced by COVID-19 vaccines
It also found that vaccine effectiveness against most long-Covid symptoms was highest in people aged 60 years and over
Over the past two weeks, cases of COVID-19 have more than doubled in six countries in eastern Europe (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine)
Many experts have argued that the pandemic is on its end stage and slowly moving towards becoming an epidemic but WHO has maintained that this is not the end and a more severe variant is expected
Ethiopia has sent a letter to the World Health Organization, accusing its Ethiopian director-general of misconduct after his sharp criticism of the war and humanitarian crisis in the country.
The global health agency's latest technical brief aims to answer some of the big outstanding questions about the heavily mutated Covid variant
The UN agency's experts regularly meet drugmakers to discuss the best composition of COVID-19 vaccines as the industry looks at whether shots need to be tweaked to tackle the coronavirus.
"Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant. I need to be very clear: vaccines alone will not get any country out of this crisis," said Ghebreyesus.
The questions over vaccine effectiveness came as cases of the new variant spread, with the first reported case in Latin America emerging in Brazil
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday urged PM Modi to stop flights from South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong where new Covid-19 variants have been detected