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  • World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talks during a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on 11 March 2020. Picture: AFP

    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.

    298 days ago
  • FILE: This handout picture made available by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering remarks following the speech of US President's chief medical adviser during a World Health Organization (WHO) executive board meeting on 21 January 2021 in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    '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.

    299 days ago
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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.

    304 days ago
  • SANDF and SAPS members interrogate a suspected looter in Alexandra on 13 July 2021. This follows large-scale incidents of rioting and looting across the township and the province. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News

    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.

    304 days ago
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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".

    305 days ago
  • FILE: This handout picture made available by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering remarks following the speech of US President's chief medical adviser during a World Health Organization (WHO) executive board meeting on 21 January 2021 in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    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.

    308 days ago
  • FILE: A photo shows the logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    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.

    313 days ago
  • Health workers remove the body of a man who died of COVID-19 coronavirus at his Home in Bandung on June 23, 2021, as Indonesia’s infection rates soar and hospitals are flooded with new patients, prompting warnings that the Southeast Asian nation's health crisis could spiral out of control. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    313 days ago
  • A Tunisian patient infected with COVID-19 is pictured at the intensive care unit of the Aghlabide hospital in the east-central city of Kairouan on 4 July 2021. Tunisia placed the capital Tunis and the northern town of Bizerte under a partial lockdown from until 14 July in a bid to rein in record daily coronavirus cases and deaths. Picture: FETHI BELAID/AFP

    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.

    314 days ago
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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.

    328 days ago
  • World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talks during a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on 11 March 2020. Picture: AFP

    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.

    328 days ago
  • This file photo taken on 28 June 2014 shows a member of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) putting on protective gear at the isolation ward of the Donka Hospital in Conakry, where people infected with the Ebola virus are being treated. The World Health Organization on 19 June 2021 officially announced the end of Guinea's second Ebola outbreak which was declared on 14 February. Picture: AFP

    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.

    329 days ago
  • FILE: Health specialists prepare for work in an isolation ward for patients at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Gukedou, southern Guinea. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    331 days ago
  • FILE: World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti. Picture: World Health Organization (WHO)/Facebook.

    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.

    332 days ago
  • WHO’s Africa head Matshidiso Moeti. Picture: Twitter/@MoetiTshidi

    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.

    340 days ago
  • A member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic boards a bus following their arrival at a cordoned-off section in the international arrivals area at the airport in Wuhan on 14 January 2021. Picture: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP

    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.

    353 days ago
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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'.

    356 days ago
  • Relatives carry the body of a victim who died due to the COVID-19 coronavirus at a cremation ground in New Delhi, India, on 5 May 2021. Picture: SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP

    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.

    360 days ago
  • FILE: Family members, with help from the municipal staff, transfer the bodies of the patients who died of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease from the ambulance at a crematorium in Bangalore, India, on 15 April 2021. Picture: Manjunath Kiran/AFP

    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.

    361 days ago
  • FILE: This handout picture made available by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering remarks following the speech of US President's chief medical adviser during a World Health Organization (WHO) executive board meeting on 21 January 2021 in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    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.

    364 days ago
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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.

    364 days ago
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