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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...
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How we got to two million Covid-19 deaths
On December 31, 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) is alerted to a cluster of pneumonia cases "of unknown cause" in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
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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.
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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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WHO team arrives in Wuhan for virus investigation
The WHO says establishing the pathway of the virus from animals to humans is essential to preventing future outbreaks.
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WHO convenes emergency committee early over coronavirus variants
The newly identified variants, which appear to be significantly more infectious than the strain that emerged in China in 2019, come as spiking virus numbers force many nations to enforce new lockdowns.
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WHO rules out COVID-19 herd immunity this year
England meanwhile launched the first of its mass-inoculation sites in major cities, racing to get ahead of the rapid spread of a new strain of the disease there.
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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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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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ANALYSIS: Fight against Aids hold valuable lessons for managing COVID-19
The HIV/Aids response played out over a much longer trajectory than COVID-19. But it is, in some respects, a shining example of what can be achieved when countries and people work together.
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River of bacteria: a South African study pinpoints what’s polluting the water
Getting sick from infected drinking water is almost 100% guaranteed, a South African study has shown.
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WHO advises against remdesivir for coronavirus treatment
The United States, the European Union and other countries have granted temporary approval for the use of remdesivir after initial research showed it may shorten recovery time in some coronavirus patients.
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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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$500m to be pledged for COVID-19 vaccine access at Paris forum - AFP
The third edition of the Paris Peace Forum, which seeks to address governance issues with concrete projects, takes place Thursday and Friday in the French capital and is dedicated to finding ways to ease and get out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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WHO chief in quarantine after contact tests positive for Covid-19
"I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet.
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YONELA DIKO: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the WTO in the era of Trump
A WTO director-general from South Korea, at least in the warped Trump’s America view, would be much more easy to influence and push than a director-general from an African state like Nigeria, writes Yonela Diko.
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Too many countries in 'exponential' virus surge: WHO
'The next few months are going to be very tough and some countries are on a dangerous track,' WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference.
