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WHO holds emergency meeting over virus variants
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.
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FACT CHECK: ANCYL’s promotion of steam and pH ‘cures’ for COVID-19
Africa Check takes a closer look at two ‘remedies’ for COVID-19 being shared by the African National Congress Youth League in Tshwane.
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China says WHO coronavirus experts to visit from Thursday
This comes more than a year after the pandemic began and amid accusations Beijing delayed the investigation.
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Vaccine rollout: Around 80% of African countries lagging behind, says WHO
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.
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Slow vaccine rollouts fuel worry as US logs record daily COVID death toll
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.
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WHO virus mission to China in disarray as entry denied
A 10-strong team was due to arrive in China this week after months of painstaking negotiations.
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WHO experts to wade into tricky territory in hunt for virus' origins
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.
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Mapping the global scourge of gender-based violence
Graphic showing regional WHO estimates on violence against women. November 25 is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
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New York shuts early as global daily virus deaths top 10,000
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.
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Whole world must benefit from COVID vaccine: WHO chief
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.
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WHO says Africa escaped 'exponential' rise in COVID-19 cases
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.
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Africa CDC urges all nations to join WHO's COVAX vaccine initiative
The WHO said 76 rich nations were now committed to joining a global COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan co-led by the WHO that aims to help buy and fairly distribute the shots.
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FACT CHECK: Zweli Mkhize’s claims on SA’s ‘relationship with alcohol’
Africa Check looks at the claims by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize that although only 31% of the population drinks alcohol, South Africans drink more per person than anywhere in Africa. He also claimed that they are among the top drinkers in the world.
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WHO says children aged 12 and over should wear masks like adults
Children aged 12 and over should particularly wear a mask when a one-metre distance from others cannot be guaranteed and there is widespread transmission in the area, the WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said.
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WHO urges nations to join global shared vaccine bid
The World Health Organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that without vaccinating the planet's highest-risk populations simultaneously, it would be impossible to rebuild the global economy.
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SA's outbreak should be wake-up call for continent - WHO
South Africa reported a surge of 13,373 new cases on Saturday, the fourth largest globally.
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WHO: Eradication of coronavirus ‘unlikely’
Over 500,000 people have died from the virus since its outbreak in China late last year.
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WHO studying evidence on airborne virus transmission
The World Health Organisation said it would put out a new scientific brief within days, rounding up the knowledge about how the virus can be transmitted and ensuring its guidance stays in line with the evidence.
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Virus exposes gaping holes in Africa’s health systems
The World Health Organization has warned that Africa, home to 1.3 billion people, could become the next epicentre of the pandemic.
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World leaders launch WHO COVID-19 plan, but US not involved
US President Donald Trump has lambasted the WHO as being slow to react to the outbreak and being “China-centric”, and announced a suspension of funding to the UN agency.
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'Mixed picture' in Europe, COVID-19 vaccine at least 12 months off: WHO
'The overall world outbreak, 90% of cases are coming from Europe and the United States of America. So we are certainly not seeing the peak yet,' WHO spokeswoman Dr. Margaret Harris told a briefing in Geneva.
