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DR Congo announces end of latest Ebola epidemic
The World Health Organization said the latest outbreak had killed 55 people among 119 confirmed and 11 probable cases since it began in June.
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Report names and shames countries cosy with Big Tobacco
The global tobacco market size was valued at nearly $850 billion in 2019.
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'We cannot give up,' WHO chief Ghebreyesus says of pandemic fight
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ comment came a day after US President Donald Trump's chief of staff told CNN that the administration's focus had moved to mitigation, not stamping out the virus.
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ANALYSIS: Lockdown didn’t work in SA: Why it shouldn’t happen again
The data concerning both the spread of the virus and the indirect consequences of the lockdown indicates that no similar action is justified moving forward.
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Enforce quarantine to crush pandemic, says WHO
WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan linked soaring transmission rates in the northern hemisphere to the failure to implement the vital step rigorously.
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UN stockpiling billion syringes for COVID-19 vaccine
Unicef, the UN Children's Fund, said it aims to get 520 million syringes in its warehouses by the end of this year, to guarantee an initial supply in countries ahead of the vaccine.
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Coronavirus survives on skin five times longer than flu: study
The study backs World Health Organization guidance for regular and thorough hand washing to limit transmission of the virus, which has infected nearly 40 million people around the world since it first emerged in China late last year.
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Letting virus 'run free' with eye to herd immunity is 'unethical': WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "herd immunity is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached".
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WHO chief wishes Trump 'full and speedy recovery'
US President Donald Trump, who has COVID-19, is pulling the United States out of the UN health agency, which he accuses of botching its response to the pandemic that emerged in China and being too close to Beijing.
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WHO warns of 'alarming rates of transmission' of virus in Europe
"The September case numbers... should serve as a wake-up call for all of us," the WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said.
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Oct, Nov to be 'tougher' with more coronavirus deaths: WHO Europe
The WHO Europe's 55 member states are holding an online meeting on Monday and Tuesday to discuss their response to the new coronavirus and agree on their overall five-year strategy.
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Parly praises Mkhize collaboration with WHO in tackling COVID-19 in SA
During a press briefing earlier this week, WHO Health Emergencies Programme Director, Dr Mike Ryan, elaborated on South Africa's collaboration with the global health body.
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Widespread COVID-19 vaccinations not expected until mid-2021, WHO says
A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Friday it does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety.
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Europe can live with COVID-19 with local lockdowns - WHO regional director
Europe can live with COVID-19 without a vaccine by managing outbreaks with localised lockdowns, the World Health Organization’s director for the region said on Tuesday.
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COVID-19 contacts should be tested, regardless of symptoms - WHO
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website earlier this week shifted from its position that all close contacts of known COVID-19 cases should be tested, suggesting that those with no symptoms 'do not necessarily need a test.'
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WHO declares Africa free of polio
Poliovirus now joins smallpox in the list of viruses that have been wiped out in Africa, the World Health Organization said.
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Coronavirus cases, deaths slow in most regions: WHO
The numbers for the seven-day period ending on 23 August mark a 5% decrease in new COVID-19 cases globally and a 12% drop in new deaths compared to a week earlier.
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WHO hopes end to pandemic in 'less than two years'
'We hope to finish this pandemic before less than two years,' Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from the WHO's headquarters in Geneva, insisting that it should be possible to tame the novel coronavirus faster than the deadly 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
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WHO chief brands COVID-19 PPE corruption 'murder'
The WHO director-general was asked about graft in South Africa, which is reeling from coronavirus-linked corruption scandals that have battered President Cyril Ramaphosa's credibility and the country's image abroad.
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Germany, France want more funding, power for WHO as part of sweeping reforms
The move shows the two countries’ keen interest in an overhaul aimed at strengthening the WHO, despite talks on the matter with the United States collapsing earlier in August at G7 level over differing views about the reform.
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WHO urges nations to join global shared vaccine bid
The World Health Organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that without vaccinating the planet's highest-risk populations simultaneously, it would be impossible to rebuild the global economy.
