Healthcare under pressure: WHO sees “incredibly low” COVID, flu vaccination rates as cases surge
JENNIFER RIGBY and JULIE STEENHUYSEN, of Reuters, report…
China’s respiratory illness surge not as high as pre-pandemic – WHO official
Shanghai, ChinaReuters The spike in respiratory illnesses that China is currently suffering is not as high as before the COVID-19 pandemic, a World Health Organisation official said, reiterating that no new or unusual pathogens had been found in the recent cases. People wait for their rides outside a children’s hospital in Beijing, China on 27th […]
Global COVID-19 cases near 250 million as Delta surge eases
Reuters Worldwide cases due to COVID-19 were approaching 250 million on Sunday as the surge from the Delta variant eases and more normal trade and tourism resume, although some countries in eastern Europe are experiencing record outbreaks. Over the last three months, the daily average number of cases has fallen by 36 per cent, according […]
Country by country, scientists eye beginning of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic
Chicago, USReuters As the devastating Delta variant surge eases in many regions of the world, scientists are charting when, and where, COVID-19 will transition to an endemic disease in 2022 and beyond, according to Reuters interviews with over a dozen leading disease experts. They expect that the first countries to emerge from the pandemic will […]
WHO says it may be “last chance” to find COVID origins
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be “our last chance” to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and urged China to provide data from early cases. The first human cases of COVID-19 were reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in […]
Hard-won gains at risk as Delta variant spreads – WHO
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The world is at risk of losing hard-won gains in fighting COVID-19 as the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads, but WHO-approved vaccines remain effective, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus as being as transmissible as chickenpox […]
World can bring pandemic under control within months – WHO chief
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The world can bring the global COVID-19 pandemic under control in the coming months provided it distributes the necessary resources fairly, the head of the World Health Organization told a news briefing on Monday. Global climate change activist Greta Thunberg, joining the briefing as a virtual guest from Sweden, took a swipe at […]
“Not a good idea”: Experts concerned about Pope’s trip to Iraq
NICOLE WINFIELD and SAMYA KULLAB, of Associated Press, report on concerns about the rising number of COVID-19 infections in Iraq ahead of the Pope’s planned visit…
WHO acknowledges ‘evidence emerging’ of airborne spread of COVID-19
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people. “We have been talking about the possibility of airborne transmission and aerosol transmission as one […]
China’s revised COVID figures are a bid to ‘leave no case undocumented’ – WHO; latest on worldwide spread
Reuters A sharp upward revision in China’s coronavirus death toll on Friday was “an attempt to leave no case undocumented” after medical services in Wuhan were overwhelmed at the start of the outbreak, the World Health Organization said. Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the […]