WHO previously declared emergencies for public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, the Zika virus in Latin America in 2016 and the ongoing effort to
Expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency. The World Health Organisation on Saturday declared the monkeypox as public health emergency
Last Friday, the WHO’s Emergency Committee concluded that the virus remains a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) and warned of several interlinked challenges….reports Asian Lite News The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic
The WHO member states have already tried to force the health body, which typically avoids taking a stance on politics, into taking action over the invasion…reports Asian Lite News Russia may sever
Excess mortality is calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred and the number that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic based on data from
Terming it “flawed,” the government has questioned the World Health Organization’s (WHO) methodology for estimating the deaths caused by Covid-19 in India, media report says…reports Asian Lite News According to the New
Besides continuing to respond to the pandemic, WHO is also putting in place new measures to help keep the world safe against future epidemics….reports Asian Lite News Even as some high-income countries
The worldwide death toll inflicted by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has surpassed six million, reaching 6,004,421 as of Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)…reports Asian Lite News Globally, there have
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program, echoed that countries should chart their own paths in lifting the measures instead of following blindly what the other countries is
WHO said in its weekly epidemiological report that the “overall risk” related to omicron “remains very high.” It cited “consistent evidence” that it has a growth advantage over the delta variant…reports Asian