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World passes 4 mn COVID-19 deaths as Asia battles fresh outbreaks
'The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic,' said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, calling the four-million figure an underestimate of the true toll.
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Arthritis drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab reduce COVID-19 deaths: study
A new study prompted the WHO to recommend the use of the medicines, known as IL-6 inhibitors, in addition to corticosteroids among patients with severe or critical COVID-19.
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SA to benefit from COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer hub
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its Covax programme partners are collaborating with a consortium, as well as universities, to establish a COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer hub in the country.
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WHO sounds alarm on vaccine shortage in poor countries
A large number of poorer countries receiving vaccines through a global sharing scheme did not have enough doses to continue programmes, the World Health Organization (WHO) added.
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WHO declares an end to second Ebola outbreak in Guinea
At 16 confirmed cases and seven probable infections according to WHO figures, the limited size of the latest flare-up has been credited to experience from the 2013-16 epidemic, which killed more than 11,300 people mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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WHO declares an end to second Ebola outbreak in Guinea
The UN body said it had delivered around 24,000 vaccine doses to Guinea and that 11,000 people at high risk had received shots, including more than 2,800 frontline workers.
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SA accounts for 43% of COVID-19 infections in Africa - WHO Africa
WHO regional director, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, has urged countries to ramp up their management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Africa likely to miss September vaccination target: WHO
Africans have received less than one percent of the over 2.1 billion doses administered globally, according to the WHO.
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COVID-19 origins search 'being poisoned by politics': WHO
The UN health agency has been facing intensifying pressure for a new, more in-depth investigation of where COVID-19 came from, but so far there is no timeline for the next stage in the probe.
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Countries urge deeper probe of COVID-19 origins at WHO meet
The European Union, Australia and Japan were among others to call for more progress on the investigation, while the British representative urged for any probe to be 'timely, expert-driven and grounded in robust science'.
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As official toll mounts, true COVID-19 death figure elusive
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that an estimated 6-8 million people were likely to have died due to COVID-19.
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COVID-19 surge in India impacting vaccine flows to Africa
World Health Organization (WHO) officials said that vaccine deliveries to Africa ground to a near halt this month, as India diverted doses for domestic use.
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Situation in Ethiopia's Tigray 'horrific': WHO chief
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed out that some five million people in the region are now in need of humanitarian aid, and especially food aid.
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Working 55-hour week increases risk of death: UN
The report by the UN's World Health Organization and International Labour Organization agencies comes as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates workplace changes that could increase the tendency to work longer hours.
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Pandemic to be 'far more deadly' this year, WHO warns
The pandemic has killed at least 3,346,813 people worldwide since the virus first emerged in late 2019, according to an AFP tally of official data.
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WHO says COVID-19 variant found in India 'of concern'
The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 first found in India last October seemed to be transmitting more easily than the original version of the virus, and might possibly have some increased resistance to vaccine protections.
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India's COVID-19 battle stokes vaccine worries in Africa
Africa is watching aghast as India struggles with coronavirus, fearing a long-running shortfall in the Indian-made vaccines that it needs to help shield its people.
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African nations appear to be bracing themselves for surge in COVID infections
Health ministers across the continent met on Saturday to review a strategy that the African Union (AU) set up at the beginning of last year to tackle the pandemic and seek better ways to flatten infection curves.
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WHO approves China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine
The UN health agency signed off on the two-dose vaccine, which is already being deployed in dozens of countries around the world.
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WHO begs G7 to step up and combat COVID-19
The WHO said the Group of Seven industrial powers had the ability to fund the vaccines, tests and treatments needed to conquer the pandemic - and knock down the barriers blocking faster production.
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Covax signs deal for 500m Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses
The doses, to come on stream from October at the earliest, will broaden out the portfolio of vaccines in the Covax scheme, which has so far been heavily reliant on the AstraZeneca vaccine and hit by delays.
