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Explained: How the World Health Organisation aims to fight pandemics in the future
Fp Explainers • 2 years agoNegotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway at the World Health Organisation. A new pact is a priority for WHO chief who called it a ‘generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect’ at the UN agency's annual assembly
'If not now, then when?' WHO chief asks country to prepare for next pandemic
Fp Staff • 2 years agoTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was addressing the 10th annual World Health Assembly in Geneva. The assembly addressed topics ranging from global health challenges to the eradication of polio and supporting steps to ease Ukraine's health emergency triggered by Russia's invasion.
WHO says COVID-19 emergency is over: What does this decision mean?
• 2 years agoAlthough WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the coronavirus emergency was over, he warned that the virus is here to stay and that thousands of people continue to die every week. The risk of new variants emerging that cause new surges in cases and deaths remains
WHO anticipates more deaths in Sudan due to disease outbreaks, collapse of services
Fp Staff • 2 years agoThe UN health agency was carrying out a risk assessment to determine whether the seizure of a laboratory in Khartoum earlier this week housing pathogens represented a risk to public health in Sudan
‘Clues to understanding Covid-19 origins rests with China,’ says WHO chief
Fp Staff • 2 years agoThe global health watchdog asked China to reveal all the information that it had on the virus, more than three years after it first emerged at a seafood market in the Chinese province of Wuhan, killing nearly 7 million people across the world
'We need to know': WHO says China has more on Covid origin, asks it to share relevant info
Fp Staff • 2 years agoThe World Health Organization said Thursday that it was certain China had far more data that could shed light on the origins of Covid and demanded that Beijing share all relevant information immediately.
WHO warns of ‘fake news’ after Elon Musk pandemic treaty tweet
• 2 years agoThe exchange came as negotiations proceed towards a global accord aimed at helping prevent and swiftly respond to future pandemics, with a final text expected to go to a vote among WHO member states in May 2024
Finding COVID-19's origins is a moral imperative, says WHO's Tedros
• 2 years agoA US agency was reported by the Wall Street Journal to have assessed the pandemic had likely been caused by an unintended Chinese laboratory leak, raising pressure on the WHO to come up with answers. Beijing denies the assessment
WHO chief visits rebel-held Syria for first time after earthquake
• 2 years agoTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus entered Syria on Wednesday from neighbouring Turkey via the Bab al-Hawa crossing and visited several hospitals and a shelter for those displaced
WHO chief to 'push until we get the answer' on Covid origins
• 2 years agoThe World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency's chief said Wednesday following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search