The labels will not replace existing scientific names but are designed to make discussions easier and remove stigma The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a...
Long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The first global study of its kind...
Crematoriums were overwhelmed in India in recent weeks amid a devastating Covid wave The Covid-19 pandemic was preventable, an independent review panel has said. The panel,...
The WHO has classified the coronavirus variant first found in India last year as a “variant of global concern” The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified...
Europe’s vaccination campaign has been hit by delays The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticised the rollout of coronavirus vaccines in Europe as being “unacceptably slow”....
China has dismissed claims of a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says further investigation is needed to...
The WHO and Unicef said the delivery was a momentous occasion Ghana has become the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing initiative....
A team of international experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 have all but dismissed a theory that the virus came from a laboratory. Peter Ben Embarek,...
Mass vaccination has already started in several countries, including Russia The world faces a “catastrophic moral failure” because of unequal Covid vaccine policies, the head of...
The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is ‘not necessarily the big one’ and that a more deadly virus could yet sweep...
A team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of Covid-19, the World Health Organization...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, October 29, that hoodlums looted one of its offices in Nigeria and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were...
A worker wearing protective clothing stands in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil One in 10 people around the world may have...
The Czech Republic announced a record number of daily cases New weekly coronavirus cases in Europe have exceeded the numbers reported when the pandemic first peaked...
India currently has the third-highest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus The number of new cases of coronavirus rose by almost 260,000 in 24 hours...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disclosed that over 8,000 health workers have been infected with novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Africa. The international health agency made...
WHO officials said it was “unrealistic” to expect a vaccine to be found any time soon The coronavirus pandemic will get “worse and worse” if...
Mr Biden has a healthy lead in the polls, with just four months to go till the election US Democratic challenger Joe Biden has said...
The WHO had previously said there was not enough evidence to say that healthy people should wear masks The World Health Organization (WHO) has changed...
Services have been hit in Niger Millions of children could die from preventable disease because of severe disruptions to vaccination programmes caused by coronavirus, experts...