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WHO chief overrules panel to call monkeypox global emergency

The monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, the head of the World Health Organization said, overruling a divided expert panel to issue the group’s highest alert.

Tribune News Service · Jul 23, 2022

WHO chief overrules panel to declare monkeypox global emergency

The monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern, the head of the World Health Organization said, overruling a divided expert panel to issue the group’s highest alert.

Tribune News Service · Jul 23, 2022

UN Health Agency Chief Declares Monkeypox a Global Emergency

The expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, a declaration that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines. A global emergency is WHO’s…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 23, 2022

Monkeypox declared a global health emergency by the WHO

A global emergency is WHO’s highest level of alert

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2022

WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency amid surge in cases

WHO declares monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries a ‘public health emergency of international concern’.

Al Jazeera · Jul 23, 2022

Monkeypox: World Health Organisation declares global health emergency

The declaration was made by the WHO director-general despite a lack of consensus among members of the organisation’s emergency committee

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2022

WHO declares global health emergency over monkeypox outbreak

The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization's highest level of alert, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday.

Reuters · Jul 23, 2022

WHO experts split on monkeypox emergency ahead of decision - sources

Members of a World Health Organization (WHO) expert group are split over whether the monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, but the agency's director-general may still issue the maximum alert on Saturday, two sources close to the decision told Reuters.

Reuters · Jul 23, 2022

‘Covid is not going to go away’: Australia will require public health measures for foreseeable future, say experts

Vaccine inequity and emerging variants mean the future of the pandemic is increasingly uncertain, researchers say

The Guardian - AU · Jul 22, 2022

What is ‘Centaurus’? New fast-spreading Covid variant that has arrived in UK as cases soar

Virologists voice concerns about highly-contagious BA.2.75 which is thought to spread faster than its Omicron relatives

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022