Urgently trying to work with AstraZeneca, SII, Indian govt to restart COVID-19 vaccine shipments: WHO Official"We have a huge number of countries that have had to suspend rollout of their second doses of vaccines," Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to W...
19 Jun, 2021, 11.36 AM IST
US, India, China account for 60% of Covid vaccine doses distributed: WHO"This week, we will see over two billion doses... we will probably pass the two billion doses... landmark in terms of the number of doses o...
05 Jun, 2021, 01.02 PM IST
WHO warns of 'failure' unless rich countries speed up vaccine sharingWarning of a "two-track recovery", the World Health Organization is urging wealthy countries to donate their surplus doses to poorer countr...
04 Jun, 2021, 05.25 PM IST
WHO seeks to fill COVID-19 vaccine gap left by India suspending exports"In the next few months we do not expect Serum (Institute of India) to be able to supply the kind of (doses) originally predicted," WHO chi...
03 May, 2021, 08.52 PM IST
World Health Organisation warns coronavirus herd immunity unlikely in 2021 despite vaccinesAt a media briefing on Monday, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said it was critical countries and their populations maintain strict social distancin...
12 Jan, 2021, 11.40 AM IST
New kind of loans and bonds could fill $28 billion COVID funding gap: WHOBruce Aylward, a senior WHO adviser and its ACT coordinator, said that new financing mechanisms - including concessional loans and catastro...
15 Dec, 2020, 05.44 PM IST
Number of Covid-19 vaccines growing but volume of doses remains concern, says WHO AdviserA handful of candidate vaccines against COVID-19 have reported efficacy levels of greater than 90 per cent in clinical trials, and Aylward ...
12 Dec, 2020, 09.43 AM IST
COVID-19 vaccine could fundamentally change pandemic direction: WHOBruce Aylward also told the WHO's annual ministerial assembly that interim results announced earlier in the day from Pfizer Inc's phase-thr...
09 Nov, 2020, 09.38 PM IST
WHO says India in talks to join 'COVAX' global vaccine schemeThe WHO and the GAVI vaccine alliance are leading the COVAX facility, aimed at helping buy and distribute vaccination shots against the nov...
07 Sep, 2020, 11.40 PM IST
WHO cautious on COVID-19 plasma as U.S. issues emergency authorizationSo-called convalescent plasma, which has long been used to treat diseases, has emerged as the latest political flashpoint in the race to fi...
24 Aug, 2020, 09.01 PM IST
Coronavirus mystery deepens: COVID-19 may not be what people thoughtThere could be bad outcomes with the new virus initially until the patients get the hang of how to manage it.
28 Feb, 2020, 01.53 PM IST
Steep decline in Coronavirus cases in China: WHO expert"I know the challenges with the statistics that come out of China sometimes with changing numbers and what we had to do is look very carefu...
25 Feb, 2020, 05.14 PM IST
With 71 new coronavirus deaths, total number of casualties touches 2,663 in ChinaAccording to a daily report released by the National Health Commission, the number of confirmed cases has reached 77,658, a jump of 508 cas...
25 Feb, 2020, 01.16 PM IST
China says more than 3,000 medical staff infected by coronavirusLiang Wannian told reporters during a joint press briefing with the head of the World Health Organization delegation to China, Bruce Aylwar...
24 Feb, 2020, 05.50 PM IST
WHO team heads for China as coronavirus toll tops 900The outbreak has caused huge disruptions in China with usually teeming cities becoming virtual ghost towns during the past two weeks as Com...
10 Feb, 2020, 09.14 AM IST
Ebola response enters 3rd phase, cases may rise again: WHOThe Ebola outbreak response has entered its third phase, the WHO has said but warned against "irrational exuberance" amid a sharp drop in t...
05 Aug, 2015, 04.30 PM IST
10,000 new cases of Ebola per week in two months: WHOAccording to Aylward, in the last four weeks, there have been about 1,000 new cases per week.
15 Oct, 2014, 11.41 AM IST