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Be prepared for another, more severe pandemic: WHO officials In the final World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 press conference of the year, on Monday, senior officials warned that the virus is "not necessarily the big one", and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world.UN News | Updated: 29-12-2020 01:29 IST | Created: 29-12-2020 01:29 IST "The next pandemic may be more severe", said Dr. MikeRyan, head of the WHO Emergencies Program, adding t...

NEW YORK : The “fragile” world needs to get its act together and honor those who have died by getting better at fighting COVID-19 because “the next pandemic may be more severe,” Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergencies Program, said on Monday. In the WHO’s final COVID-19 press conference of the year, attended by Arab News, he and other senior officials warned that the virus is “not necessarily the big one.” It is not just the virus, however, that is k...

UK coronavirus variant now has no significant impact on vaccines: WHO Despite a number of mutations so far of SARS-CoV-2 virus, the culprit behind the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, none of them, including the latest UK variant, has made a significant impact on the susceptibility of the virus to any of the currently used therapeutics, drugs or the vaccines under development, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) have said. According to WHO Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, SARS-CoV...

UK COVID19 variant currently has no significant impact on vaccines: WHO Greater Kashmir | Despite a number of mutations so far of the COVID19, none of them, including the new mutant variant found in the UK, has made a significant impact on the

Photo taken on Dec. 21, 2020 shows Eurostar trains at empty St. Pancras International Station in London, Britain. Eurostar announced it was canceling trains between London, Brussels and Amsterdam from Dec. 21. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Xinhua) Amid growing concerns over the mutant coronavirus, the European Union gave the green light to the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine within the bloc late on Monday, hours after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave a positive scientific assessment...

2020-12-23 02:19:30 GMT2020-12-23 10:19:30(Beijing Time) Xinhua English -- British Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that a new strain of COVID-19 is "out of control" in Britain. -- The new variant may be up to 70 percent more transmissible, according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced stronger coronavirus restrictions. -- The good news is that no evidence has yet been found that the new strain could affect the effectiveness of vaccines. -- European countries and Canada be...

UK COVID-19 variant currently has no significant impact on vaccines Despite a number of mutations so far of the COVID-19, none of them, including the new mutant variant found in the UK, has made a significant impact on the susceptibility of the virus to any of the currently used therapeutics, drugs or the vaccines under development, according to World Health Organization (WHO) experts.   |  23 Dec 2020 5:38 AM GMT GENEVA: Despite a number of mutations so far of the COVID-19, none of them, in...

  ·  2020-10-27  ·   Source: Xinhua News Agency Workers disinfect medical supplies donated by the World Health Organization at Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, on September 4 (XINHUA) Global cooperation In a video message to the conference, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the COVID-19 pandemic the "greatest crisis of our age." Guterres called for worldwide solidarity to meet the challenges of the epidemic: "Developed countries must support he...

UK Covid-19 variant currently has no significant impact on vaccines: WHO   Tue, Dec 22 2020 01:57:32 PM Geneva, Dec 22 (IANS): Despite a number of mutations so far of the Covid-19, none of them, including the new mutant variant found in the UK, has made a significant impact on the susceptibility of the virus to any of the currently used therapeutics, drugs or the vaccines under development, according to World Health Organization (WHO) experts. Addressing a briefing here on Monday, WHO Chief S...

By   Dec 22, 2020 11:29 AM EST Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States top infectious diseases expert, stated on Tuesday that US citizens should assume that the new, more contagious COVID-19 strain that emerged in the United Kingdom is already in the country. It is "certainly possible" that the strain is already present within the US, according to Fauci on ABCs "Good Morning America." Fauci: Assume It Is Here Already According to Dr. Fauci, "When you have this amount of spread within a plac...