Pandemic
WHO chief expects collaboration of China, others on virus origins follow-up
GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that he expected all countries, including China, to collaborate in the second phase of a probe into…
Americas health agency sees COVID outbreaks continuing into 2022
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned on Wednesday that countries in the region could continue to face localized COVID-19 outbreaks "well into 2022"…
U.S.’ Blinken to convene foreign ministers on COVID-19 commitments before year’s end
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he would personally convene world foreign ministers before the end of the year to follow up on commitments…
PM Modi’s Departure Statement ahead of his visit to USA
Statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi: "I will be visiting USA from 22-25 September, 2021 at the invitation of His Excellency President Joe Biden of the United States of America…
Biden to convene virtual virus summit on fringe of UN
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will convene a virtual COVID-19 summit on Wednesday on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly aimed at boosting vaccinations worldwide…
WHO’s Tedros seen running unopposed for top job despite Ethiopia snub – sources
By Emma Farge, Francesco Guarascio and Giulia Paravicini GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's chief looks set to run unopposed for a second term at the helm as tries…
France suspends 3,000 health staff as Europe targets vaccine refusal
By Matthieu Protard and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -Hospitals, care homes and health centres have suspended around 3,000 workers across France for failing to comply with mandatory COVID vaccination, the…
UNICEF calls for schools to reopen in pandemic-hit nations
MANILA (Reuters) - The United Nations children's agency UNICEF has urged education authorities to reopen schools as soon as possible in countries where millions of students are still not allowed…
Remote learning is setting back millions of South Asian children – UNICEF
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hundreds of millions of children in South Asian are suffering because their schools have been closed because of the coronavirus but they lack online devices and…
COVID-19 disruption causing many deaths from TB, AIDS in poorest countries, fund says
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people will die of tuberculosis left untreated because of disruption to healthcare systems in poor countries caused by the COVID-19…
US officials consider COVID lab leak theory as credible as natural origins narrative
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): US officials overseeing an intelligence review into the origins of COVID-19 consider the theory of virus accidentally escaping from a lab in Wuhan as equally…
Social media platforms are ‘killing people’ with vaccine misinformation, says Biden
Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): President Joe Biden on Friday criticized social media platforms like Facebook for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines, as his administration has blamed them…
