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Don't waste the hope of vaccines, warns WHO
The World Health Organization voiced fears that further waves of the coronavirus pandemic could be on the way if people think the roll-out of vaccines around the globe means the crisis is over.
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WHO rolls out Covax vaccines to southern Africa
The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access platform, also known as Covax last week delivered 600,000 units of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ghana and 504,000 to the Ivory Coast.
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World won't vanquish virus this year, says WHO
The World Health Organization's emergencies director Michael Ryan said it might be possible to take the sting of tragedy out of the coronavirus crisis by reducing hospitalisations and deaths.
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Ghana to receive world's first doses of free Covax vaccines
The West African nation has recorded 80,759 COVID-19 cases and 582 deaths since the start of the pandemic. These figures are believed to fall short of the real toll as the number of tests is low.
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WHO advisory group declares AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine safe for all adults
The group found the vaccine has a 22% efficacy in preventing mild to moderate COVID-19 caused by the second variant of the coronavirus.
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WHO mission member says 'don't rely' on US virus intelligence
The World Health Organization mission ended Tuesday without finding the source of the virus, but members had to walk a diplomatic tightrope during their stay, with the US urging a 'robust' probe and China warning against politicising the issue.
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WHO mission to China fails to find animal source of coronavirus
Experts believe the disease - which has gone on to kill more than 2.3 million people worldwide - originated in bats and could have been transmitted to humans via another mammal.
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WHO expresses concerns on AstraZeneca vaccine findings
The World Health Organization held a briefing on the latest findings on the AstraZeneca Vaccine on 9 February 2021. #Covid19news #Vaccines #AstraZeneca
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WHO says don't dismiss AstraZeneca shot after SA delays jabs
In South Africa, alarm was raised when a trial at Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand concluded the AstraZeneca vaccine provided only "minimal" protection against mild to moderate OVID-19 caused by the variant first detected in South Africa.
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China to offer 10 million vaccine doses to Covax
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Wednesday that China 'decided to provide 10 million vaccine doses to Covax, primarily to meet the urgent needs of developing countries.'
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WHO expert says China mission going 'very well'
China has faced criticism at home and abroad for playing down the initial outbreak and concealing information when it first emerged in Wuhan in December 2019, raising doubts over the usefulness of the WHO trip.
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WHO slams critics of COVID-19 origins probe
A WHO investigative team is in Wuhan, China - where the first cases were discovered in December 2019 - trying to piece together how the virus jumped from animals to humans before going on to kill more than two million people.
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WHO virus probe begins with fieldwork in ground-zero Wuhan
The WHO investigation has been hobbled by delays, and there are fears over access and the strength of evidence a year after the virus emerged in the central Chinese city.
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WHO confirms COVID-19 variant found in SA reported in 6 other African countries
The World Health Organization said that it was driving record numbers of infections across parts of Africa.
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Biden plans immediate orders on immigration, COVID-19, environment
Many of the actions will take government policies back to where they were on 19 January 2017 - the final day of the Barack Obama-Joe Biden administration, before Trump entered office and took a wrecking ball to many of their initiatives.
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UK coronavirus variant detected in at least 60 countries: WHO
With the global death toll now well past two million, and new variants of the virus causing deep concern, countries across the world are grappling with how to slow infections until vaccines become widely available.
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World facing 'catastrophic' moral failure on vaccines: WHO chief
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus denounced the "me-first" attitude of wealthy nations and also blasted vaccine manufacturers for chasing regulatory approval in rich countries rather than submitting their data to the WHO to green-light vaccine use globally.
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WHO: SA to be among the first to get vaccine rollout in Africa
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, director of the WHO Regional Office for Africa, has indicated that South Africa may have to be one of the first African countries to see a vaccine rollout as soon as they are available as it could be one of the hardest hit by the second wave of COVID-19. Dr Moeti was speaking during a virtual bi-monthly media briefing, the first for the organisation for 2021.
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WHO team arrives in Wuhan as China reports first virus death in months
The 10 scientists, who must complete a two-week quarantine in Wuhan before starting their work, arrived for their much-delayed mission to examine the orgins of the pandemic.
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WHO experts to arrive in Wuhan for delayed virus probe
The 10 scientists will investigate the origins of the new virus in a politically fraught mission that comes more than a year after the pandemic began and after accusations Beijing has tried to thwart the project.
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COVID-19, pandemic and lockdown: How 2020 changed the world
In the last 12 months, the novel coronavirus has paralysed economies, devastated communities and confined nearly four billion people to their homes. It has been a year that changed the world like no other for at least a generation, possibly since World War II.
