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Swiss government lifts nearly all COVID-19 restrictionsThe government said only the requirement to wear masks on public transport and while visiting healthcare facilities would remain in force t...
Setting up hub to make COVID-19 vaccines in South Africa, says WHO Chief"The consortium involves a company Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines, which will act as the hub both by manufacturing mRNA vaccines itself & by ...
WHO gives emergency approval to Sinopharm, first Chinese COVID-19 vaccineThe vaccine, one of two main Chinese shots that collectively have already been given to hundreds of millions of people in China and abroad,...
WTO set to make recommendation on leader at 1400 GMT meetingA group of World Trade Organization ambassadors is set to make a recommendation at 3 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) on Wednesday on who should ...
U.S. calls for WHO reforms, timely information on outbreaksU.S. assistant health secretary Brett Giroir, speaking to the WHO Executive Board, also called for acting on proposed WHO reforms by countr...
WHO urges countries to investigate early COVID-19 casesThe disease later identified as COVID-19 was first reported by Chinese authorities to the WHO on 31 December and was not previously believe...
WHO says looking into reports of some Covid-19 patients testing positive againSouth Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. Jeong Eun-kyeong, d...
Coronavirus spreading fast outside China, airports to increase screeningsWorld Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said almost eight times as many cases had been reported outside China as i...
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...
Death toll from new coronavirus set to surpass SARS, as China's fatalities above 700The death toll in mainland China jumped by 86 to 722, and is poised to pass the 774 deaths recorded globally during the 2002-2003 pandemic ...