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The official count of deaths directly attributable to Covid -19 and reported to WHO in that period, from January 2020 to the end of December 2021, is slightly more than 5.4 million
The WHO on Thursday said that 14.9 million people were killed either by Covid-19 directly or due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society, with the global health agency estimating that India had 4.7 million fatalities.
Geneva [Switzerland], May 5: New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million). “These sobering data not only point to the impact of the pandemic but also to the need for all countries to invest in more resilient health systems that can sustain essential health services during crises, including […]
(PNA file photo) MANILA-There are over 300,000 defective ballots that will be reprinted, an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Thursday. Comelec Commissioner George Garcia said a total of 372,878 ballots did not pass the thorough testing on the election documents. In a message to the media, Garcia said the number is 0.58 percent or 372,878 of the total number of the 67,442,616 official ballots that have been printed for both local and overseas voters. The rejected ballots are those with smudge, not perfectly cut, among others. "We will first complete the reprinting ...
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the ICC Centre of Entrepreneurship (CoE) have recently organised a workshop titled ‘Intellectual