Developed countries’ hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and other tools are prolonging the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. “It is the hoarding of these materials, we saw at the beginning of the pandemic with ...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has stated that in its report on the origins of the coronavirus, the US intelligence community will try to confirm predetermined findings and shift responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic. The stateme...
The World Health Organization’s chief scientist on Monday advised against people mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines from different manufacturers, calling it a “dangerous trend” since there was little data available about the health impact. “It’s...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday (Jul 1) said COVID-19 cases were on the rise again in Europe after two months of decline and warned a new wave would come “unless we remain disciplined”. “Last week, the number of cases rose by 10 per...
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan warned that Beijing will face “isolation in the international community” if it does not cooperate with investigations into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is that diplomatic spadework – rallying t...
A Chinese American civil rights group has reportedly launched a lawsuit against Donald Trump over the former POTUS’ use of terms such as “China virus” to describe COVID-19. The celebrity gossip website TMZ reported that the Chinese American Civil R...
Medics have warned of a surge of new COVID-19 cases around the world despite the ongoing vaccination campaigns in many countries. India and Brazil, which reported the highest number of confirmed new infections, have been hit the hardest. India's ...
Canada on Tuesday said it had recorded its first case of blood clotting with low platelets after someone received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot, according to a Health Ministry statement. The person, who was not identified and who received the inocu...
The WHO reiterated Friday there was “no adequate data” on switching Covid-19 vaccines between doses, after France said under-55s who received an AstraZeneca first jab should get their second from a different vaccine. The World Health Organization h...
Many Americans --Republicans in particular—remain deeply skeptical about COVID-19 vaccines, threatening to derail a national vaccination program that aims to contain the virus that has killed more than 540,000 in the United States. “If they try to m...
The number of new coronavirus cases has risen in Europe after six weeks of decline, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. “Last week, new cases of COVID-19 in Europe rose nine percent to just above one million. This brought a promising six...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has detected an increase in weekly reported COVID-19 cases for the first time in seven weeks, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during Monday’s briefing. “In the past week, the number of report...
In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 109,885,555 and 2,429,669, respectively. The US is the worst-hit country...
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the original animal carrier of COVID-19 has not yet been identified, as the organization ruled out that a ab leak caused the outbreak. The remarks were as WHO held a press conference in Wuhan after...
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned the new mutant strain of the coronavirus is “out of control” and suggested parts of England will be stuck in the new highest tier of restrictions until a vaccine is rolled out. More than 16 million Britons ar...
“WHO has been in touch with the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR, who expressed interest in applying for WHO emergency use listing (EUL), and we look forward to receiving the data for their EpiVacCorona candidate vaccine,” ...
Moderna plans to have 100 to 125 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine available in the first quarter of 2021, the vast majority of which will go to the United States, the biotechnology company announced Thursday. Between 85 and 100 million of the ...
More than 130 Secret Service agents who protect President Donald Trump, the White House and the first family have been ordered to isolate because they caught COVID or were in close contact with someone who was infected with the virus. The spread of...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) at this time had a grim warning concerning the subsequent months with COVID-19, warning that some nations are on a “dangerous track.” Its newest evaluation got here on a day when the WHO reported prob...
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus while speaking at a high-level UN General Assembly meeting on Wednesday said that the actual number of deaths due to COVID-19 was “certainly higher” than one million. The global COVID-19 death toll sho...