Health

People living longer and healthier lives but COVID-19 threatens to throw progress off track, warns WHO

Geneva : All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant loss of life, disrupting livelihoods, and threatening the recent advances in health and progress towards global development goals highlighted in the 2020 World Health Statistics published by the World Health Organization (WHO) today. more

Number of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Worldwide Surpasses 3.5Mln - WHO

Moscow/Sputnik: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 3.5 million, while more than 243,000 people have died from the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Still ‘a long way to go’ in coronavirus battle, WHO chief warns

New York : The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against complacency as countries continue to confront COVID-19 and citizens grow weary of stay-at-home measures aimed ...

Lifting lockdowns does not signal the end of COVID-19: WHO chief

New York : The World Health Organization (WHO) has reiterated its stance on the lifting of lockdown measures aimed at protecting the public against the spread of COVID-19.

Relaxing lockdowns without boosting care could lead to new COVID spike: WHO

New York : As some European countries begin to relax lockdown measures following weeks of confinement introduced to halt the spread of the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization ( ...

Now is ‘not the time’ to reduce funding for the World Health Organization in COVID-19 fight, urges Guterres

New York : Now is a time for unity in the global battle to push the COVID-19 pandemic into reverse, not a time to cut the resources of the World Health Organization (WHO), which is spearh ...

Testing, tracing, and when to lift restrictions: WHO’s latest advice

New York : The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), outlined his agency’s latest advice to countries on Monday in a statement, stressing that a mix of social dis ...

UN health agency working on strategies to gradually lift COVID-19 restrictions

New York : The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with countries on strategies to "gradually and safely" ease stay-at-home restrictions aimed at containing the spread of ...

World Health Organization ‘absolutely critical’ to neutralizing coronavirus threat – UN chief

New York : The World Health Organization (WHO) must be supported across the world, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, describing the UN health age ...

COVID-19 highlights nurses’ vulnerability as backbone to health services worldwide

New York : Nurses are on the frontline fighting COVID-19 but “an alarming failure” in the global supply of protective clothing and new coronavirus tests – together with ...