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The Covid 'global health emergency' is officially over, says the World Health Organisation

The statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a major step towards the ending of the pandemic

Wales Online

WHO downgrades Covid-19 pandemic, saying it is no longer a global emergency

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

The National (Scotland)

WHO: COVID-19 no longer global health emergency

“For more than a year the pandemic has been on a downward trend,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

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Covid-19 no longer a global emergency, WHO says - as it downgrades pandemic

The World Health Organisation said Covid-19 is still a global health threat

Wales Online

WHO ends global health emergency declaration for COVID-19

The World Health Organization today lifted its Public Health Emergency of International Concern for COVID-19. That declaration went into effect three years ago on Jan. 30, 2020.

WEKU

Covid no longer a global health emergency, WHO declares

It doesn’t mean Covid is over, warns Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

The Independent UK

WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it's no longer emergency

The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency

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WHO director general warns that the world is failing to learn COVID's lessons

"Future generations will question what we did to improve from the pandemic," said. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Fortune

Supplies running out at Sudan’s remaining hospitals as healthcare disaster looms

In El Fasher, in North Darfur, only one hospital remains functional, with bomb damage, power cuts and only weeks until lifesaving equipment and drugs run out

The Guardian - UK

World moving out of COVID-19 emergency phase: WHO

The virus causing COVID-19 is here to stay but the world is beginning to transition out of the emergency phase of the pandemic, the World Health

The New Daily

WHO Fears More Deaths in Sudan Due to Outbreaks, Collapse of Services

The World Health Organization (WHO) expects "many more" deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday. Battles between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary since mid-April has killed at least 459 people and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO fears more deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks, collapse of services

The World Health Organization (WHO) expects "many more" deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Sudan: fighting eases during truce as thousands flee country

With partially held ceasefire due to expire on Thursday, UN says neither side ready to seriously negotiate

The Guardian - UK

WHO fires doctor after findings of sexual misconduct

The World Health Organization says it has fired one of its doctors who faced allegations that he had repeatedly engaged in sexual misconduct

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The Conversation

African vaccines: local manufacturers are struggling to access the market - what must change

Two recent developments in South Africa have underscored the opportunities – and challenges – facing vaccine production on the continent.

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO Warns Sudan’s Hospitals Running Out of Supplies, Staff

The World Health Organization's chief called on Tuesday for the parties in the conflict in Sudan to provide access to medical facilities to all those requiring care, warning that medical supplies and personnel in the capital are running low. "I want to be very clear: All parties must ensure unrestricted…

Reuters

WHO warns Sudan's hospitals running out of supplies, staff

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Ukraine war: the devastating effects of conflict on infant mortality rates – new research

The brutal war in Ukraine is now over a year old. While estimates of the numbers of civilians killed and injured vary, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has estimated that 8,317 civilians have been killed and a further 13,892 injured from the beginning of the war…

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Social inequality 'hampers health'

Social inequality remains an obstacle in the provision of health care. As such, countries should not only focus on the financial aspect of universal health coverage but also empowering people, according to Jos Vandelaer, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Thailand.

Reuters

China holds the key to understanding COVID-19 origins: WHO chief

The World Health Organization chief pressed China on Thursday to share its information about the origins of COVID-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged.

Evening Standard

World Health Day 2023: What is this year’s theme?

World Health Organisation marks 75 years in 2023 with an inclusive message

The Guardian - UK

One in six people worldwide affected by infertility, WHO reports

Call for access to treatment to be urgently expanded as studies show ‘infertility does not discriminate’

The Conversation

COVID testing led to new techniques of disease diagnosis: progress mustn’t stop now

In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered a speech in which he emphasised the importance of testing:

Reuters

Elon Musk, WHO chief spar on Twitter over U.N. agency's role

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday in a tweet that countries should not "cede authority" to the World Health Organization, and the U.N. health agency's chief quickly rejected his comments.

Asharq Al-Awsat

New COVID Origins Data Point to Raccoon Dogs in China Market

Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have originated from animals, not a lab, international experts say. Other experts have not yet verified their analysis, which has yet…

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