The director of emergencies World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 —deaths, hospitalizations and lockdowns— could end this year if effective steps are taken to eliminate inequality in access to vaccines. Dr. Michael Ryan, in a panel organized by the World Forum in Davos on equality in the distribution […]
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WHO urges pharmaceutical companies to provide data on COVID-19 vaccines
Updated on 01/18/2022 03:14 pm A committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged the manufacturers of vaccines for the COVID-19 to provide him with the data he needs to put his vaccines on the emergency use list, saying the delays are affecting equitable access to vaccines. Inclusion on the UN agency’s list for emergency […]
WHO maintains international emergency for coronavirus despite lower lethality
Updated on 01/18/2022 11:43 am The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it maintains the international emergency due to COVID-19, declared since January 30, 2020, despite the fact that the current wave of global infections, with record numbers, is not accompanied by an increase in deaths, as many new cases are mild. The WHO Emergency […]
Poor countries rejected 100 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 that were going to expire
Updated on 01/13/2022 03:19 pm Nearly 100 million doses of donated COVID-19 vaccines with a short shelf life were rejected by poor countries in December, the UN said on Thursday. The World Health Organization (WHO) has repeatedly accused rich countries of hoarding vaccines and giving poor countries vaccines close to their expiration date, which it […]
Can cigarette smoke spread COVID-19?
Updated on 01/13/2022 10:08 am COVID-19 infections are on the rise, the world’s health networks have reported that in the last 24 hours there were almost 3.4 million cases in a context that the omicron variant has become the dominant one. The authorities seek to slow this trend with preventive measures to avoid exposure to […]
When does a person sick with COVID stop being contagious?
Many countries in the world are seeing a drastic increase in the number of cases of COVID, powered by omicron, the new variant of the virus. But as omicron spreads, it seems to be becoming clear that the symptoms and disease it causes are less severe than those caused by its predecessors, according to the […]
WHO says COVID-19 deaths remain despite boom in omicron cases
The number of new coronavirus infections in the last week rose by around 55%, although the number of deaths remained stable, the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated in its latest report on the pandemic. In the weekly report, the United Nations health agency documented some 15 million new COVID-19 cases last week and more than […]
What is the most aggressive variant of COVID-19 and what does the WHO say about all strains?
Updated on 01/12/2022 06:42 am More than two years have passed since the SARS-CoV-2 came into the life of humans. Like all viruses, this one began to mutate and the changes were alerting the World Health Organization (WHO). Most of these changes have little or no effect on the properties of the virus. However, some […]
COVID-19: omicron seems to start to decline dramatically in Britain and the US
Scientists are watching for signs that the alarming wave of cases of the variant omicron of coronavirus could have peaked in Britain, and is about to do the same in U.S, which means that infections could start to decrease dramatically. The reason: The variant has proven so contagious that it may already have run out […]
WHO experts affirm that only with booster doses will the COVID-19 epidemic not be stopped
Updated on 01/11/2022 02:51 pm Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) affirmed that the mere repetition of booster vaccines will be insufficient to prevent the appearance of variants of the new coronavirus and urged to improve immunizers to stop the transmission of the disease. “A vaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses ” of […]