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Jeopardizing global health at the behest of China is wrong: Taiwan
Updated : 1 day, 20 hours ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], May 8 (ANI): Taiwan on Friday thanked US Secretary of State Antony Blinken after Washington extended its support for Taipei's bid at the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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COVID-19: WHO approves emergency use of China's Sinopharm COVID-19
Updated : 2 days, 2 hours ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 8 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday approved the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, paving the way for it to be rolled out globally.
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US calls on WHO to invite Taiwan as observer during upcoming annua
Updated : 2 days, 6 hours ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): The United States on Friday called upon the World Health organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to invite Taiwan to participate as an observer at the upcoming annual meeting of World Health Assembly, saying there is "no reasonable justification
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Monumental moment in fight against COVID-19, says WHO chief after
Updated : 4 days, 2 hours ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 6 (ANI): Lauding the United States for extending support to waiving patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines amid the global health crisis, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus termed the Biden administration's decision
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'Scale issue' differs in COVID-19 surge in US and India, says WHO'
Updated : 5 days, 21 hours ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 4 (ANI): The difference in COVID-19 surge in countries like the United States and India is the "scale of the surge and scale of the response", says Dr Roderico Ofrin, WHO's India Representative as the pandemic continues to challenges country's health infrastructure.
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Priyanka Chopra appeals to Joe Biden requesting COVID-19 assistanc
Updated : 1 week, 5 days ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 27 (India): Global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, on Tuesday, reached out to US President Joe Biden, World Health Organisation (WHO), and other US government officials to help India in its fight against the raging second wave of COVID-19.
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India's COVID-19 situation 'beyond heartbreaking', says WHO chief
Updated : 1 week, 6 days ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 26 (ANI): Highlighting that several countries are still experiencing intense COVID-19 transmission, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that situation in India is "beyond heartbreaking".
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IATA welcomes WHO emergency committee risk management recommendati
Updated : 2 weeks, 2 days ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 23 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged governments to comply with recommendations on international travel from the World Health Organisation's International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee on testing and risk managemen
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World records 5,236,922 new Covid cases over past seven days, WHO
Updated : 2 weeks, 4 days ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 21 (ANI): A record-setting 5,236,922 new COVID-19 cases were registered over the past seven days globally, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) data published on Tuesday.
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'Truly' independent probe needed as WHO was focused on 'pleasing'
Updated : 2 weeks, 5 days ago IST
Washington [US], April 20 (ANI): The recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report on the origin of coronavirus has shown that the world health body was more focused on pleasing Beijing, said a former US National Security Council's senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense, add
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Lankan MP criticises govt for buying Chinese COVID-19 vaccine not
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 6 (ANI): Amid the controversy surrounding the Sinopharm vaccine, a Sri Lankan parliamentarian has said that Colombo has brought the Chinese made COVID-19 vaccine to the country without the approval of the World Health Organisation (WHO) showing disregard for the li
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World Health Day 2021: Experts talk about current health care situ
Updated : 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 6 (ANI): World Health Day is a global health awareness occasion celebrated every year on April 7, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organisation (WHO), with an aim to ensure that everyone, everywhere realises their right to good health. Keeping this in mind t
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