Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

GENEVA/LONDON: The Covax vaccine-sharing programme said on Tuesday it will deliver 237 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 shot to 142 countries by the end of May as it steps up the global roll-out of its vaccine supplies. The…

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the first recipient of a Covid vaccine under the global Covax scheme, as US health workers prepared to distribute nearly four million doses of the singleshot Johnson & Johnson jab.…

NEW YORK: The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution calling on all member states to support a "sustained humanitarian pause" to local conflicts, in order to allow for Covid-19 vaccinations. Resolution 2656,…

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the relatively inexpensive shot in the developing world. A WHO statement said it had…

GENEVA: The World Health Organization's (WHO) team probing coronavirus origins, which is on a visit to China's Wuhan, the first Covid-19 hotspot, will publish a preliminary report next week, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…

GENEVA: The world is on the "brink of a catastrophic moral failure" if rich countries hog Covid-19 vaccine doses while the poorest suffer, the head of the WHO said Monday. World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom…

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Friday urged rich countries to stop jumping the queue and making bilateral deals for the first wave of Covid-19 vaccines. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that right from the outset,…

The head of the WHO says it’s important to step up genomic sequencing worldwide to ensure that new variants of the coronavirus are detected as the pandemic enters its second year. New variants detected in Britain and South Africa appear…

Agence France-PresseDec 28, 2020 10:23:02 ISTGeneva: The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health is "doomed" without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health…