Updated on 02/01/2022 12:27 pm The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, considered this Tuesday “premature” to declare a victory against COVID-19 and abandon the effort to stop the transmission of the virus. “It is premature for any country to capitulate or declare itself victorious”, said the person in charge at […]
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WHO says gloves are not needed to vaccinate against COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out that the people in charge of inoculating the vaccines against COVID-19 do not need to use disposable gloves, as in vaccination for any other disease, which would reduce the gigantic amount of sanitary waste. that the pandemic has generated and that in most poor countries they are not […]
Waste caused by COVID-19 poses a threat, according to WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report to warn of one of the most neglected consequences of the pandemic: the thousands of tons of additional medical waste it has produced and which it fears will have a very negative impact on health and the environment. environment. Disposable gloves, masks and gowns, used vaccine vials, […]
COVID-19: ómicron bursts into the end of the world
Considered the most contagious strain to date, the omicron variant it has even managed to penetrate the isolated and southern Chilean region of Magallanes, popularly considered as “the end of the world”. A jump that has disrupted the epidemiological situation derived from the COVID-19 and that has put the national health system on the ropes, […]
US funding to WHO dropped 25% during pandemic
The financial contributions of U.S to World Health Organization (WHO) have fallen by 25% during the pandemic coronavirus, according to provisional data, and Washington’s future support for the United Nations agency is being reviewed. The large drop in funding compared to the previous biennium is due to the cuts decided by the former president of […]
WHO will publish in February pandemic transition plan to “control phase”
Updated on 01/24/2022 09:15 am The World Health Organization (WHO) will publish a new COVID-19 response plan at the end of February that will propose a transition, at the end of which the current management of the disease as a pandemic will end, the director of WHO announced on Monday. Agency Health Emergencies, Mike Ryan. […]
US Opposes Plans to Strengthen World Health Organization Independence
The United States, the World Health Organization’s top donor, is resisting proposals to make the agency more independent, four officials involved in the talks said, raising questions about Washington’s long-term support for the organization. UN agency. The proposal, made by the WHO’s working group on sustainable financing, would increase each member state’s permanent annual contribution, […]
EMA affirms that administering several doses of anti-COVID vaccines in the short term is not sustainable
The European Medicines Agency (EMA)) and other international regulators reiterated that the administration of several doses of vaccines against the COVID-19 “at short intervals is not a sustainable approach” in the long term. These organizations believe, however, that “the need is increasingly clear” to administer booster injections to extend the protection of COVID-19 vaccines. These […]
COVID-19: WHO registers 18 million cases, the wave of omicron stops
Updated on 01/19/2022 09:49 am The number of new cases of coronavirus rose 20% last week, to more than 18 million worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which meant that the wave of infections caused by the omicron variant of the virus began to subside. In its weekly report on the pandemic, the […]
The omicron variant gains ground and already concentrates 72% of global cases
Updated on 01/19/2022 07:25 am The omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, discovered in early November, is already present in 71.9% of the cases analyzed in the last 30 days by the global network of GISAID laboratories, the weekly epidemiological report of the World Health Organization (WHO). Of the 405,000 specimens collected, the […]