Countries call for WHO swift action on sexual abuse
More than 50 countries on Tuesday told the World Health Organization that they wanted perpetrators of sexual abuse within the WHO to be swiftly held to account.
More than 50 countries on Tuesday told the World Health Organization that they wanted perpetrators of sexual abuse within the WHO to be swiftly held to account.
Senator Risa Hontiveros is urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to include Taiwan in its global pandemic response plan, expressing concern that shutting out Taiwan could lead to a gap in efforts to curb COVID-19.
Shaken by the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s member states agreed Tuesday to overhaul how they fund the UN health agency, giving it much more money to spend on its own priorities.
China’s zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is not sustainable, the World Health Organization’s chief said Tuesday, adding that the WHO had told Beijing so.
Governments should aim for a sustained suppression of the Covid-19 pandemic rather than manage the disease as an endemic virus, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged local government units to ensure that Covid-19 vaccines reach those who have not yet been vaccinated.
The Omicron variant has moved the Covid-19 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in Europe, the WHO Europe director said Sunday.
The risk posed by the Omicron variant is still “very high”, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, after Covid-19 case numbers shot up by 11 percent globally last week.
The WHO warned Tuesday that the Omicron coronavirus variant could lead to overwhelmed healthcare systems even though early studies suggest it leads to milder disease, as China and Germany brought back tough restrictions to stamp out new infection surges.
The WHO said it was closely tracking a Delta subvariant to determine whether it was more transmissible than the original strain, as Covid-19 cases rise globally again.