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Long COVID should be 'clear priority' for authorities: WHO
While some studies have begun to shed light on the illness, it is still unclear why some patients with COVID-19 continue to show symptoms for months, including...
Five of the six WHO regions of the world reported a double-digit percentage decline in new cases, with only the Eastern Mediterranean showing a rise, of seven percent.
Since the West African Ebola crisis of 2013-16 - which left 11,300 dead across the region - the WHO has eyed each new outbreak with great concern, treating the most recent Congolese epidemic as an international health emergency.
WHO Europe director Hans Kluge told a press conference that "the decline in cases conceals increasing numbers of outbreaks and community spread involving variants of concern".
Members of the group arrived at Huanan seafood market - which has been sealed since January last year - driving into its barricaded premises as guards quickly blocked others from entering.
The United States, which passed 25 million confirmed cases last weekend, remains the country with the largest outbreak - and the largest death toll of over 420,000.
COVID-19 was first detected in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019, before seeping beyond China's borders to wreak global havoc, costing more than two million lives and eviscerating economies.
Nearly 74,500 COVID-19 patients in Africa have died while more than 3.1 million coronavirus cases have been recorded.
Newly identified mutations of the virus, which appear to be significantly more infectious, come as spiking case numbers force many countries to enforce new restrictions.
Africa Check takes a closer look at two ‘remedies’ for COVID-19 being shared by the African National Congress Youth League in Tshwane.
This comes more than a year after the pandemic began and amid accusations Beijing delayed the investigation.
The WHO said each country needed to inform the global health body what priority groups they wanted to jab first, which vaccine they preferred, how they were to execute the plan, and whether they needed assistance.
The United States broke its own record for the number of daily deaths from COVID-19 yet again on Tuesday, recording 3,936 fatalities in 24 hours.
A 10-strong team was due to arrive in China this week after months of painstaking negotiations.
The WHO says China has granted permission for a visit by its experts, with a 10-person team expected to arrive shortly for a five-or six-week visit.
Graphic showing regional WHO estimates on violence against women. November 25 is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Cases are surging across the United States and Europe, with governments forced to take more drastic action despite fears about the devastation inflicted on their economies.
US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced Monday that their candidate vaccine had proven 90% effective in ongoing final phase trials involving more than 40,000 people.
Africa recorded 34,706 deaths from 1,439,657 cases, far behind the other continents. The United States alone has 202,827 deaths from 6,979,937 cases.