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  • Guards stand at an entrance as members of the WHO team, investigating the origins of the coronavirus, arrive at the closed Huanan Seafood wholesale market in Wuhan on January 31, 2021. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP.

    WHO probe team visits Wuhan market at heart of first virus outbreak

    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.

    554 days ago
  • Inside the hot zone medical staff monitor and treat sick patients infected with the COVID-19 virus at the UMASS Memorial DCU Center Field Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 13 January 2021. The centre was set up to relieve hospitals during the surge and allow for non critical patents to free up beds at the main hospital locations. Picture: Joseph Prezioso/AFP

    100 million cases worldwide, as US seeks to reset its COVID fight

    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.

    558 days ago
  • FILE: This photo taken on 4 February 2020 shows a medical staff member (R) taking samples from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, in China's central Hubei province. Picture: AFP

    WHO, China could have acted more quickly: pandemic response probe

    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.

    566 days ago
  • Professional healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) attend to a patient inside the temporary ward dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria on 11 January 2021. Picture: Phill Magakoe/AFP

    WHO Africa: The second COVID-19 wave is more challenging than the first

    Nearly 74,500 COVID-19 patients in Africa have died while more than 3.1 million coronavirus cases have been recorded.

    570 days ago
  • FILE: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Picture: AFP

    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.

    570 days ago
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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.

    572 days ago
  • FILE: People line up to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus outside a hospital in Beijing, China, on 5 January 2021. Picture: AFP

    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.

    574 days ago
  • FILE: A lab technician sorts blood samples inside a lab for a COVID-19 vaccine study at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Florida, on 13 August 2020. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    577 days ago
  • Sandra Lindsay(L), a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre on 14 December 2020 in the Queens borough of New York. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    579 days ago
  • FILE: A health worker takes a swab from a resident to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus as part of a mass testing program following a new outbreak of the coronavirus in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on 13 October 2020. Picture: AFP

    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.

    579 days ago
  • FILE: People line up to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus outside a hospital in Beijing, China, on 5 January 2021. Picture: AFP

    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.

    580 days ago
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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.

    621 days ago
  • FILE: Two people wearing protective masks pass on the street during the COVID-19 pandemic on 21 April 2020 in New York City. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    632 days ago
  • Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is conducting a COVID-19 vaccine trial in conjunction with BioNTech. Picture: Supplied.

    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.

    633 days ago
  • FILE: A professional healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) treats a patient in a tent dedicated to the treatment of possible COVID-19 coronavirus patients, while another cleans the ward at the Tshwane District Hospital in Pretoria on 10 July 2020. Picture: AFP

    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.

    682 days ago
  • John Nkengasong. Picture: africacdc.org

    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.

    704 days ago
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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.

    706 days ago
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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.

    715 days ago
  • FILE: World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on 3 July 2020 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    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.

    720 days ago
  • World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Picture: @WHO/Twitter

    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.

    748 days ago
  • FILE: Undertakers carry a coffin during the funeral proceedings for a COVID-19 coronavirus victim at a mosque in Cape Town, on 16 June 2020. Picture: AFP

    WHO: Eradication of coronavirus ‘unlikely’

    Over 500,000 people have died from the virus since its outbreak in China late last year.

    758 days ago
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