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FILE: A handout picture taken by the Government of Dubai Media Office on 23 December 2020, shows a health worker administering a dose of the coronavirus vaccine to a nurse at a medical centre in the Dubai Emirate. Picture: AFP

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Pandemic won't be over until 70% are vaccinated: WHO director

By AFP

The World Health Organization's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said countries and their populations must not become complacent about the pandemic.

  • FILE: A nurse from Lancet Nectare hospital performs a COVID-19 coronavirus test in Richmond, Johannesburg, on 18 December 2020. Picture: AFP.

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    578 days ago
  • FILE: People wear face masks as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they walk through the Forbidden City, the former palace of China's emperors, in Beijing on 1 May 2020. Picture: AFP

    China hails its 'extraordinary' success curbing COVID-19 ahead of WHO probe

    China faced a barrage of criticism at home and abroad over its initial handling of the virus, which emerged in the central city of Wuhan last December.

    595 days ago
  • FILE: People wearing protective facemasks, amid fears of the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, walk on a street in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on 27 February 2020. Picture: AFP.

    International team seeking COVID-19 origin to go to China in January - WHO

    Scientists initially believed the killer virus jumped from animals to humans at a market selling exotic animals for meat in the city of Wuhan, where the virus was first detected late last year.

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

    WHO in talks with Pfizer and Moderna on COVID-19 vaccine access

    Vaccination campaigns have already begun in Britain and the United States.

    606 days ago
  • FILE: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres virtually addresses a roundtable on Climate Ambition during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on 24 September 2020, in New York. Picture: AFP

    UN chief laments 'chaotic' COVID-19 response, urges reform

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said one means of achieving a more effective multilateral response was reforming the composition of and voting rights within the Security Council.

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

    WHO: Vaccines do not equal zero COVID-19

    The WHO warned against complacency and what it said was an erroneous belief that because vaccines are on the near-horizon, the crisis is over.

    617 days ago
  • FILE: A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the transmission of the novel coronavirus walks by a sign encouraging social distancing in a street in Blackpool, Lancashire on 16 October 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Global COVID-19 cases top 65 million as nations plan for vaccine

    The pandemic is showing little sign of slowing, with the daily global death toll in recent weeks reaching its highest rate since the virus emerged in China late last year.

    617 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 says it 'will do everything' to find COVID-19 origins

    The world health body sent an advance team to Beijing in July to lay the groundwork for the international probe.

    621 days ago
  • FILE: Beneficiaries of food parcels load their good onto a horse cart during the launch of the distribution of food at the Guinaw Rails cultural center in Pikine on 28 April 2020. Senegal kicked off a massive food distribution operation to help nearly half of its population cope with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is slowing down the economy of this West African country. Picture: AFP

    Senegal's coronavirus success divides experts

    The government closed its borders, schools, and mosques when the virus first hit in March, as well as banning large gatherings and travel between cities, and imposing a night-time curfew.

    624 days ago
  • Medical staff in protective clothes are seen carrying a patient from an apartment suspected of having the virus in Wuhan, in Hubei province on 30 January 2020. Picture: AFP

    Coronavirus pandemic: 12 key milestones in a year like no other

    On 2 April more than 3.9 billion people - half of the world's population - are forced or called on to confine themselves, according to an AFP count. The same day the threshold of one million cases is crossed.

    625 days ago
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    COVID-19 vaccines offer hope as world leaders plan for future

    Hopes over COVID-19 vaccines have given a boost to virus-weary citizens across the globe, but the disease remains rampant and world leaders are urging people to be patient.

    627 days ago
  • FILE: World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference. Picture: AFP

    WHO chief: World may be tired, but COVID-19 'is not tired of us'

    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking from quarantine after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, warned that the virus preys on weakness.

    642 days ago
  • A person walks past a board advising on hand disinfection facilities in a public place in Berlin on 6 October 2020, amid the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Picture: AFP.

    Coronavirus: latest global developments

    The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,105,691 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Saturday.

    665 days ago
  • People wearing a protective facemask visit the Montmartre neighbourhood, in Paris, on 11 August 2020 as the mayor decided to make the mask compulsory in certain areas of the city to fight against the rising of new infected cases of COVID-19. Picture: AFP

    Paris cafes to shut as Europe confronts second COVID-19 wave

    France reported nearly 17,000 new coronavirus cases on Saturday alone, the highest daily number since the country began widespread testing.

    676 days ago
  • FILE: International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor at a press briefing on 21 May 2020 in Pretoria on her department’s repatriation process of South Africans stranded abroad due to COVID-19 lockdowns. Picture: @DIRCO_ZA/Twitter.

    Pandor: Govt relied on WHO guidelines to determine COVID-19 high-risk countries

    At a joint ministerial briefing in Pretoria on Wednesday on the new transport regulations under lockdown level 1, the minister said the data of the countries allowed in the country would be reviewed every two weeks.

    682 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 wants 120 million rapid COVID-19 tests for poorer states

    The WHO said the $600 million scheme would enable low- and middle-income countries to close the dramatic gap in testing for the new coronavirus.

    684 days ago
  • FILE: A Moroccan woman, wearing a protective face mask, walks in a street in Tangiers' Old City on 14 June 2020, after the announcement of lockdown measures in the northern port city to smother a new outbreak of the novel coronavirus, weeks after easing nationwide restrictions. Picture: AFP.

    COVID-19 death toll passes 900,000 worldwide

    The country with the most coronavirus deaths is the United States with over 190,000 fatalities, followed by Brazil.

    702 days ago
  • FILE: Children wearing protective face masks arrive at school on 7 September 2020 in Zagreb. School started in Croatia today with the implementation of epidemiological measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Picture: AFP.

    Pandemic threatens lives of millions of children - UN

    The past 30 years have seen remarkable strides forward in preventing or treating causes of infant deaths including premature births and pneumonia.

    703 days ago
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