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WHO Appeals Wealthier Nations For $23 Billion Funding To End Global COVID Emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday appealed to 55 of the world’s richest nations to raise $23billion in funding…
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WFP Warns Severe Drought Threatening 13 Million With Hunger In Horn Of Africa
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday warned an estimated 13 million people are facing severe hunger in…
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WHO Survey Finds Covid-19 Disrupts Health Services In More Than 90% Of Countries
A new World Health Organization (WHO) survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reported disruptions in basic health…
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WHO Says Omicron Subvariant BA.2 Is Likely To Have Same Severity As Original BA.1 Variant
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said the emerging BA.2 form of the Omicron coronavirus variant does not seem…
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WHO Chief Says World Can End Acute Phase Of Covid-19 Pandemic With 70% Vaccination
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday said that it is possible to end the acute…
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WHO Official Says No Guarantee Next Covid-19 Variant Will Be Milder Than Omicron
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Covid-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, on Wednesday, said the next Covid-19 variant is likely…
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WHO Chief Warns COVID-19 Pandemic Not Reaching Its End Game Anytime Soon
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday warned not to assume that the COVID-19 pandemic is…
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WHO Technical Head Says Omicron Less Severa Than Delta, But Still Dangerous
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Technical Head, Maria Van Kerkhove, on Sunday said the Omicron coronavirus variant is less severe…
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WHO Says Vulnerable Individuals Must Be Prioritized For COVID-19 Booster Dose
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said that individuals who are most vulnerable must be prioritized for the Covid-19…
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African Health Bodies Call For COVID-19 Vaccine Donations With Longer Shelf Life
Major African health bodies on Thursday appealed for a donation of COVID-19 vaccines with a shelf life of three to…
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WHO Says Travel Bans & Restrictions, Ineffective In Stopping COVID-19 Spread
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said international travel bans do not provide any added value but contribute to…
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WHO Official Says Worst Of Coronavirus Pandemic Could Likely Be Over This Year
The head of emergencies at the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said the worst of the coronavirus pandemic could…
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Africa CDC: Total Number Of Covid-19 Cases In African Countries Surpass 10.32 Million
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Monday said the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa…
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WHO Chief Says Omicron Covid-19 Variant Is Dangerous, Especially For Unvaccinated Ones
The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is dangerous, especially…
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WHO Health Experts Warn Against Treating Covid-19 As Endemic Illness Like Flu
The World Health Organization (WHO) health experts on Tuesday said COVID-19 should be treated as a pandemic and not as…
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Africa CDC Chief Says Lockdowns No Longer Best Way To Contain COVID-19 Spread
An Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) official on Thursday said that lockdowns were no longer the…
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WHO Warns Covid Tsunami Will Drive Healthcare Systems Towards Collapse
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned a Covid variant-driven tsunami is likely to overwhelm global healthcare systems, as…
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US Government To Lift Covid Travel Restrictions On 8 Southern African Countries
The United States (US) government is expected to lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month, the…
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Africa CDC Says S.Africa Omicron Data Should Not Be Extrapolated To All Countries
The Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) head, John Nkengasong, on Thursday said data from South Africa that suggests…
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WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyesus Says Pandemic Must End In 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday urged the world to come together and take hard…
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WHO Chief Says 48 African Countries Yet To Meet Year-End Vaccination Target
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said 48 African countries are still trailing behind to…
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Africa CDC Head Appeals For Calm Over Newly Detected Omicron Coronavirus Variant
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) appealed to the people of Africa to remain calm over…
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UN Secretary-General Guterres Says Omicron Travel Restrictions Deeply Unfair & Punitive
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said that COVID-19 related travel restrictions that isolate any one country…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping Pledges To Offer 1 Billion Covid Vaccine Doses To Africa
The Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to offer one billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to Africa, as the continent…
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WHO Warns New Coronavirus Variant ‘Omicron’ Poses Very High Global Risk
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned that Omicron, the recently discovered variant of Covid-19, poses a very high…
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