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WHO Director-Generals opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 16 April 2021 Format Globally, the number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months. This is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far during the pandemic. Until the beginning of this year, Papua New Guinea had reported less than 900 cases, and just 9 deaths. It has now reported more than 9300 cases, and 82 deaths. While these numbers are still smaller than other countrie...

5 Strategies To Prepare Us for the Next Pandemic Share Published 4 weeks ago: March 9, 2021 at 3:00 pm - AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. While the world is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health and emergency management experts are alre...

Practicing disaster response and creating an emergency playbook can help the public and government work in tandem against future outbreaks.

While the world is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health and emergency management experts are already preparing for the next one. After all, biologists are certain another dangerous new pathogen will emerge sooner or later. Here are five strategies that will give the world a head start – and maybe even help prevent the next outbreak or epidemic from blowing up into a pandemic. The public health response in Guinea was swift when new cases of Ebola virus disease ...

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The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) said mandating inoculations would be discriminatory.

The roll-out of coronavirus vaccines in many countries will not provide herd immunity from the global pandemic this year, several health experts said on Monday, citing limited access for poor countries, community trust problems and potential virus mutations.

* Travel body chief says compulsory shots ‘discriminatory’ * Number of cases worldwide has passed 90 million (Adds British PM and EU-Moderna talks) PARIS/SYDNEY, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The head of a global travel organisation on Monday opposed making COVID-19 vaccinations a requirement for travellers in the fight against the pandemic, despite scepticism about reaching herd immunity this year. Several health experts said during the Reuters Next conference that the mass roll-out of coronavirus va...

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/GLOBAL-VACCINES (PIX):REUTERS NEXT-COVID-19 vaccine roll-out won't achieve herd immunity this year- health experts