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The hub, due to officially open later this year, is envisaged as a way to create a large network of global data "to predict, prevent, detect prepare for and respond to  pandemic and epidemic risks worldwide," WHO said in a statement Wednesday. WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that "one of the lessons of Covid-19 is that world needs a significant leap forward in data analysis to help leaders make informed public health decisions." "This requires harnessing t...

English News and Press Release on World about Coordination, Disaster Management, Epidemic and more; published on 05 May 2021 by Govt. Germany and WHO

Date Time WHO, Germany launch new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence will be a global platform for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, creating shared and networked access to vital multi-sectoral data, driving innovations in data analytics and building the communities of practice needed to predict, prevent, detect, prepare for and respond to worldwide health threats. The WHO Hub will be a new global collaboration of countries and...

ILLUSTRATION: ADAM SIMPSON/HEART AGENCY Angela Rasmussen is as outspoken a scientist as you are likely to find. And this year she spoke out a lot. One of many researchers who became celebrities during the COVID-19 pandemic, the virologist at Georgetown University was quoted in hundreds of articles, appeared as an expert on TV and radio, and took to Twitter to put news about mutations or reinfections into context—and to call radiologist and top U.S. government adviser Scott Atlas a “gaslight...

Illustration of the back office of the Strategic Health Operations Centre (SHOC) at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 December 2020. In order to minimize the risk of introducing COVID-19 into the headquarters premises, WHO continues to ensure that personnel have access to a safe and healthy work environment, and that all appropriate measures are in place to minimize the risk to the workforce. Ensuring the safety of all WHO staff and their families requires a new way of working on ...

The surge in Covid-19 cases in India will soon create a “humanitarian crisis”, a doctor who has family members in Delhi fears. The country of nearly 1.4 billion has seen a dramatic spike in infections and deaths in recent weeks, overwhelming the national health system and leaving some dying without access to beds or oxygen. Dr Meenal Viz, a Luton-based doctor, told the PA news agency that the next few weeks could see people “dying at numbers we probably have never imagined”. Dr Viz, 28,...

Three cases of the Indian Covid variant have been spotted in Leicester, sparking a testing blitz at a school to snuff out any potential cases. The strain, linked to an explosion in cases in India, has officially been detected 132 times in the UK but experts say there are likely hundreds more. Leicesters public health director Professor Ivan Browne said the Indian variant cases were all being investigated, isolated and contact-traced.  Health chiefs have not yet ordered surge testing in the cit...

As India struggles with oxygen, Ireland sends supplies Updated / Monday, 26 Apr 2021 20:15 The devices draw oxygen from the air and deliver it to the patient at over 90% concentration. Crematoriums are working around the clock as over 2,800 deaths were reported there in the last 24 hours, bringing the countrys cumulative death toll to over 195,000. Irelands donation is being made from stocks originally purchased by the HSE in Ireland for use in a field hospital setting, as part of pandemic pre...

The devastating surge in India’s Covid-19 cases which has overwhelmed the country’s health services is “beyond heartbreaking”, World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said. His comments at a press briefing in Geneva came as Dr Maria van Kerkhove, of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, described coronavirus rates globally as being in a “fragile situation” as several nations, including the UK, said they were sending help to India. She said: ...

The devastating surge in India’s Covid-19 cases which has overwhelmed the country’s health services is “beyond heartbreaking”, World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said. His comments at a press briefing in Geneva came as Dr Maria van Kerkhove, of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, described coronavirus rates globally as being in a “fragile situation” as several nations, including the UK, said they were sending help to India. She said: ...