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WHO urges people to limit sexual partners amid surge of monkeypox
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who last Saturday declared monkeypox a global health emergency, told reporters that the best way to protect against...
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WHO declares monkeypox outbreak a global public health emergency
This is the highest alarm the organisation can sound.
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WHO to say if it will classify monkeypox as a global health emergency
The head of the World Health Organization is on Saturday expected to declare if the agency has decided to classify the outbreak as a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound.
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Monkeypox: WHO concerned about countries where cases were never detected
South Africa reported its second laboratory-confirmed case of the viral disease this week.
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WHO says monkeypox not currently a global health emergency
A surge of monkeypox cases has been detected since early May outside of the West and Central African countries where the disease has long been endemic. Most of the new cases have been in Western Europe.
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Parents, caregivers encouraged to ensure children have full measles vaccination
This follows a recent warning of a possible measles outbreak by the Health Department. The World Health Organisation has reported a 400% increase in cases of measles between January and March this year.
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WHO believes several European countries lifted COVID restrictions 'too brutally'
WHO Europe director Hans Kluge told a press conference in Moldova that he was "optimistic but vigilant" about the pandemic's development in Europe.
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WHO: Anxiety, depression cases up by over 25% globally due to COVID
The World Health Organization also found that the COVID-19 crisis had in many cases significantly impeded access to mental health services and raised concerns about increases in suicidal behaviour.
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WHO sees pause, even end of pandemic for Europe
WHO Europe director Hans Kluge spoke of 'a ceasefire that could bring us enduring peace', with high vaccination rates, the milder Omicron variant and the end of winter in sight.
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WHO reveals Zimbabwe has deadliest roads in southern Africa
New figures show that Zimbabwe has the highest rate of fatal road accidents in southern Africa.
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WHO says research on transmissibility of Omicron under way
The Omicron coronavirus variant has been detected in 38 countries around the world.
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Omicron makes land, spreading across United States and Australia
The US and Australia announced their first locally transmitted cases of the Omicron variant as authorities worldwide rush to stem the spread of the heavily mutated strain of COVID-19.
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Vaccines reduce COVID transmission of Delta variant by 40%: WHO
The World Health Organisation's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged vaccinated people to continue to take measures to avoid catching COVID-19 and passing on the disease.
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Heaping upon misery, Afghanistan now faces raging measles outbreak
The WHO says the outbreak is particularly concerning since Afghanistan faces surging food insecurity and malnutrition.
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ANALYSIS: SA front-page stories about COVID were sensationalist and unhelpful
We analysed 681 stories on COVID-19 to explore the ways in which the papers presented the COVID-19 pandemic to their readers.
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WHO warns of up to two billion syringe shortfall in 2022
The shortages are the result of COVID-19 vaccine campaigns, with billions more syringes than normal being used worldwide, badly denting global supplies.
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Syringe shortfall threatens Africa's COVID vaccine drive
UNICEF, the United Nation's fund for children, is predicting an "imminent shortfall" of up to 2.2 billion of the single-use syringes used to give jabs, WHO Africa said.
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Guinea declares end of Marburg virus outbreak: WHO
Health authorities in the country confirmed West Africa's first recorded case of Marburg on August 9, in a man whose infection was detected after he had died a week earlier.
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WHO reiterates importance of COVID vaccine equity
The WHO's target is to have 40% of all countries' population vaccinated by the end of this year and 70% of the world's population by the middle of next year.
