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Geneva: The World Health Organization and its Covax partners have cautioned against dismissing AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after several setbacks, insisting it remained an important, life-saving tool. The AstraZeneca vaccine is ...

Wuhan: While searching for COVID-19 origin in the Chinese city Wuhan, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) said work was required to try and trace the origin of ...

Geneva: There is no need to prioritise the vaccination of the athletes participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo planned for July since there are not enough doses to vaccinate ...

Washington DC: Shortly after being sworn in on Wednesday afternoon, new US President Joe Biden signed 15 executive actions to undo policies put in place by his predecessor, Donald Trump. ...

Geneva: The new coronavirus strain, found in the United Kingdom (UK) has been detected in at least 60 countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, more than a ...

Geneva: The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic could turn out be tougher than the first, the World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted. “We are going into a second year ...

New Delhi: India has asked World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to replace maps on its web portals showing incorrect boundaries of the country. “I write to express ...

Wuhan (China): A team of experts from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan on Thursday to start investigating the origins of the coronavirus. State broadcaster CGTN showed a plane ...

Geneva: Even as vaccines against COVID-19 are being rolled out by several countries, a top scientist at the World Health Organization has warned that mass vaccinations would not bring about ...

New Delhi: A World Health (WHO) team will be visiting China on Thursday to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The Chinese state-run media outlet CGTN reported that experts ...