World
Published 03 Dec, 2021 01:44pm
WHO Regional Director for Western Pacific Takeshi Kasai says people should not only rely on border measures
Health
Published 02 Dec, 2021 12:05pm
Researchers around the world are trying to work out whether existing COVID vaccines protect us from the latest...
World
Published 29 Nov, 2021 04:40pm
Urges member states to vaccinate, shore up health systems
World
Published 28 Nov, 2021 10:41am
South Africa complains its being ‘punished’ for first detecting strain
World
Published 27 Nov, 2021 09:01am
WASHINGTON/GENEVA: The discovery of a new coronavirus variant triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed ...
Health
Published 19 Nov, 2021 05:07pm
WASHINGTON: The first case of Covid-19 identified in Wuhan, China and presented as such by the World Health...
World
Published 08 Nov, 2021 02:59pm
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children's agency kicked off a polio vaccination campaign...
Health
Published 05 Nov, 2021 05:28pm
Coronavirus infections are hitting record levels in many countries across Europe as winter takes hold, prompting a...
Health
Published 18 Oct, 2021 11:20am
The Taliban interim government has allowed the polio vaccination process to resume on November 8 across Afghanistan...
World
Published 13 Oct, 2021 10:22pm
Besides the Covid-19 crisis, a growing number of high-risk pathogens have appeared or reappeared in recent years.
Health
Published 08 Oct, 2021 01:14pm
The World Health Organization has announced a historic move: it has recommended the widespread use of the first ever...
World
Published 07 Oct, 2021 01:29pm
It is a major advance against the disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually
Blog
Published 29 Sep, 2021 04:11pm
Around 10%-20% of adolescents globally suffer from a mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression,...
Health
Published 07 Sep, 2021 10:51am
By Emma Farge
Hundreds of medical facilities in Afghanistan are at risk of imminent closure because the Western...
Health
Updated 30 Aug, 2021 04:08pm
A third-dose booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccination is a way to keep the most vulnerable safe and "not a luxury",...
Pakistan
Published 30 Aug, 2021 02:53pm
As PIA is providing air transport for the operation, the WHO will be arranging logistics on the ground.
Health
Published 17 Aug, 2021 03:51pm
The World Health Organization (WHO) is worried about the spread of the coronavirus in Afghanistan as the upheaval...
World
Published 10 Aug, 2021 11:15pm
The UN health agency has been increasingly infuriated by what it sees as the moral outrage of ...
World
Updated 29 Jul, 2021 12:21pm
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday and affirmed...
World
Updated 15 Jul, 2021 08:08pm
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asked China to be transparent and open and to...
Health
Published 10 Jul, 2021 12:35am
The UN health body's Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) said that...
Health
Published 08 Jul, 2021 06:51pm
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that passing the four millionth recorded...
Health
Published 28 Jun, 2021 10:39am
New coronavirus infections in the United Arab Emirates are mostly from more infectious variants leading to an...
Health
Published 26 Jun, 2021 02:23pm
By Michael Shields and Stephanie Nebehay
Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who...
World
Published 05 Jun, 2021 11:10am
Russia expects the World Health Organization (WHO) to approve the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus within two...
World
Published 02 Jun, 2021 04:03pm
GENEVA: The WHO said Tuesday that one strain of a Covid-19 variant first detected in India was now considered "of...
Health
Published 02 Jun, 2021 02:35am
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it has validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19...