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GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the next step in the search of the origins of Covid-19 will be the creation of a new advisory group that will develop a global framework to study pathogens with pandemic…

GENEVA: The WHO on Thursday urged China to share raw data from the earliest Covid-19 cases to revive the pandemic origins probe -- and release information to address the controversial lab leak theory. The World Health Organization…

GENEVA: A WHO official has said the agency’s assessment of made-in-India Covaxin is at an advanced stage and a decision on emergency authorisation for Bharat Biotech’s vaccine is likely by mid-September. Covaxin is still to be authorised…

GENEVA: The World Health Organization says it will soon test three drugs used for other diseases to see if they might help patients sickened by the coronavirus. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN health agency says the three drugs would…

BEIJING: China's drug regulator has approved the country's first mixed-vaccine trial, a company involved in the study said, as the rapid spread of the Delta variant raises concern about the efficacy of domestically produced jabs. The…

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says people are rushing to get a third vaccine shot as protection from the surging delta variant of the coronavirus. Bennett pointed to government statistics on Sunday showing that more…

DENVER, US: When the delta variant started spreading, Gina Welch decided not to take any chances: She got a third, booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by going to a clinic and telling them it was her first shot. The US government has…

GENEVA: There were more than 4 million new Covid-19 cases reported globally in the last week, driven mostly by spikes in the Middle East and Asia. That's according to the World Health Organization's latest weekly report on the pandemic.…

WASHINGTON: The White House on Tuesday urged Republican leaders in Florida and Texas to follow public health guidelines on the pandemic or "get out of the way" as the United States struggles to contain the spread of the Delta variant of…

WASHINGTON: The war against Covid-19 has changed because of the highly contagious Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control said, proposing a clearer message, mandatory vaccines for health workers and a return to universal…