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WHO boss says vaccine IP waiver not a property 'snatch'
Waiving intellectual property rights would help meet the 11 billion doses of vaccine the WHO says are needed to protect 70 percent of people in every country by mid-2022.
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'World failing' on COVID-19, WHO chief says at delayed Tokyo Olympics
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said an uneven vaccine rollout risked worsening the crisis, but hoped the Olympics could be a 'message of hope' to a pandemic-weary world.
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Three doses better than two? Debate over third shot
Experts say it is too soon to know for sure if countries will need to organise a third vaccine round later in the year. Some suggest that priority should be given to hundreds of millions in the global south who have not even gotten their first jab yet.
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South Africa warned of COVID surge after looting spree
Virologist Barry Schoub, a member of a scientific panel advising the health ministry, warned of the state of the pandemic in KwaZulu-Natal province, which has been heart of the unrest.
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WHO experts warn of 'strong likelihood' of new concerning variants
Committee chairman Didier Houssin acknowledged to reporters that "recent trends are worrying".
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WHO slams senseless 'greed' prolonging the pandemic
Striking an increasingly exasperated tone, the WHO said the world would look back on itself with shame if it knowingly chose to leave the world's weakest at the mercy of the pandemic.
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WHO urges 'extreme caution' in lifting COVID-19 restrictions
The UN health agency urged governments not to squander hard-won gains and return to scenes of overwhelmed hospitals and exhausted health workers.
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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.
