Updated on 11/03/2021 09:38 am The World Health Organization (WHO) authorized the emergency use of the Covaxin vaccine against COVID-19 developed in India, which supports a drug that the country’s regulators authorized long before completing advanced safety and efficiency tests . The health agency of the HIM-HER-IT It said in a statement that it authorized […]
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Global COVID-19 Cases Rise for Second Week in a Row
Global cases of COVID-19 increased by three percent last week, exceeding three million, which is the second period of seven consecutive days in which an upward line is observed, according to statistics provided today by the World Organization for Health (WHO). In Europe, the currently most affected region (1.7 million cases last week), positives rose […]
President of the European Council urges to strengthen WHO and guarantee vaccines
Updated on 10/30/2021 01:21 pm The president of the European council, Charles Michel, called this Saturday to strengthen the World Health Organization (WHO) and to guarantee “equitable” access to vaccines, during a meeting with the director general of that UN agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The meeting took place on the margins of the G20 summit […]
WHO urges to keep schools open despite rising infections in Europe
Updated on 10/29/2021 11:05 am The World Health Organization (WHO) urged to keep schools open in Europe, with protection measures if necessary, despite the rise in infections for the fourth consecutive week. More than half of the 53 countries that make up the European region of the WHO reported a “marked increase”Of cases in all […]
WHO calls for US $ 23.4 billion to “prevent another five million deaths from COVID”
The World Health Organization (WHO) asked the international community to contribute US $ 23.4 billion to its program to distribute vaccines and other tools against the COVID-19, a game with which, he affirmed, the death of up to five million people can be avoided. That funding, which the WHO estimates its ACT Accelerator (acronym for […]
WHO estimates that the pandemic is “far from the end” and maintains a global emergency
Updated 10/26/2021 02:06 pm The Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) for COVID-19 has concluded in its last meeting that the pandemic is still “far from its end”, Which is why it has chosen to maintain the international emergency against the coronavirus, declared on January 30, 2020. As reported by the WHO, the […]
Restricting travel by type of vaccine could be discrimination, warns PAHO
Updated 10/20/2021 05:40 pm Countries should allow entry to vaccinated travelers, regardless of their type of vaccine to avoid discrimination and facilitate business, said a senior official of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). With rising vaccination rates, countries are faced with new questions about how to contain the spread of COVID-19 while easing travel […]
COVID-19: they detect a descendant of the delta variant that could be more contagious
Updated on 10/19/2021 02:15 pm The British Government confirmed that it “closely follows” the appearance of a “descendant” of the delta variant of the coronavirus, which could be between 10% and 15% more transmissible than this, which is already twice as contagious as the original SARS-CoV-2. Experts have called it “AY.4.2” and warn that its […]
WHO: tuberculosis deaths increased in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
For the first time in more than a decade, deaths from tuberculosis increased in the world in 2020, a setback that experts have not hesitated to attribute to the COVID-19 pandemic due to the disruption of essential medical services and the diversion of resources. to address the crisis, particularly in poor countries where the first […]
WHO reports yellow fever outbreak in Venezuela and recommends vaccination
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported an outbreak of yellow fever in Venezuela, with seven cases that were confirmed by laboratory tests at the end of September and among which six corresponded to people who were not vaccinated against this endemic disease in this and other countries in South America. Faced with this health risk, […]