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North Korea yesterday said that more than 1 million people have already recovered from suspected COVID-19 infections a week after disclosing an outbreak, which it appears to be trying to manage in isolation. The country’s pandemic response headquarters announced 232,880 new cases of fever and six deaths in state media yesterday. Those figures raise its totals to 62 deaths and more than 1.7 million fever cases since late last month. It said that at least 691,170 people remain in quarantine. Out...

Beijing: Persevering in the dynamic zero-Covid-19 strategy unwaveringly will set China on a path toward prevailing in the battle against the novel coronavirus, officials and experts said.

Good morning, health colleagues, and welcome to the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) update – in the weeks, months and years ahead, EAPM will be placing a lot of focus on the issues arising from the EU Health Data Space legislative proposal, which was launched in the past few days, until the end of […]

Two people have died within a week in Mbandaka in the Équateur province in the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Geneva, Apr 13 (EFE).- The World Health Organization said Wednesday that while coronavirus related deaths were at their lowest since the start of the pandemic, Covid-19 would remain a public health emergency. “This week, the Covid-19 International Health Regulations Emergency Committee met and unanimously agreed that the pandemic remains a public health emergency,” WHO Director-General, …

A new WHO strategy aims to reduce global health inequity by helping some countries develop their own genomic surveillance capacity.

How does the world keeps track of new variants of COVID-19? What are the challenges? WHO’s Dr Maria Van Kerkhove explains

WHO expert Maria Van Kerkhove said the highly transmissible BA.2 Omicron subtype makes up 86 percent of worldwide COVID cases.

WHO's COVID-19 Technical Lead Maria Van Kerkhove pointed out that misinformation like the pandemic is over, Omicron is mild and that it is the last variant, are allowing Novel Coronavirus to thrive