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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — With nearly 200 million people known to have had the no...

) has highlighted the need for a global treaty on pandemic preparedness and response, urging countries to “seize the moment” and support its development. Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the agency’s Emergencies Programme, delivered opening remarks at a UN General Assembly meeting on Wednesday where ambassadors were briefed by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR). He spoke on behalf of the WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Strengthen glo...

Wave of COVID-19 Delta variant in Europe spirals out of control The Delta variant is driving a surge of COVID-19 cases across Europe. Reuters reports that in the last two weeks, 42 of Europe’s 47 countries have seen a rise in cases. A nurse holds a phone while a COVID-19 patient speaks with his family from the intensive care unit at the Joseph Imbert Hospital Center in Arles, southern France, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole) In the last seven days, Worldometers.info recorded a...

Daily Times July 9, 2021 Variants like Delta, which was first found in India, are “currently winning the race against vaccines”, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said, pinning the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution. During his biweekly conference in Geneva on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added that passing the four millionth recorded death worldwide from COVID-19 was a “tragic milestone” which “likely un...

ANI Updated Jul 1, 2021, 9:48 am IST Hospitalization rate for patients infected with the Delta variant was 85 per cent higher than for those infected with the Alpha variant  Africa has reported many new outbreaks of the variant as Tunisia, Mozambique, Uganda, Nigeria and Malawi are among the 11 countries targeted by Delta. (Representational image: PTI) Geneva: The Delta COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, has already been detected in 96 countries, 11 more than last week, the World...

Her advice comes as the Delta variant is consistently linked to increased hospitalizations and has potential to be more contagious than its ancestral strain. Scientists have much more to learn about the Delta variant, but Van Kerkhove said that there is some evidence of Delta aerosols containing higher volumes of the coronavirus than other strains.  Other WHO officials, including Michael Ryan, the Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, and Mariângela Simão, the Assistant Direc...

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BEIJING: China has not been obstructing the study on the Covid-19 virus origin, but would firmly oppose those with a vested interest in accusing China of being responsible for the pandemic, Victor Zhikai Gao, vice-president of the Centre for China and Globalisation – a Beijing-based non-governmental think-tank – has told the media. “I don’t think China is being obstructive. China does not welcome people with the vested interest in accusing China or trying to hold China responsible for t...

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The facts have not really changed even if the conversation has.