New Covid-19 variant detected in South Africa
WASHINGTON/GENEVA: The discovery of a new coronavirus variant triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed ...
First Wuhan Covid case days later than initially reported: scientist
WASHINGTON: The first case of Covid-19 identified in Wuhan, China and presented as such by the World Health...
WHO, UNICEF launch Afghan polio vaccine campaign with Taliban backing
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children's agency kicked off a polio vaccination campaign...
COVID cases break records across Europe as winter takes hold
Coronavirus infections are hitting record levels in many countries across Europe as winter takes hold, prompting a...
Taliban govt to resume polio vaccination campaign in Afghanistan
The Taliban interim government has allowed the polio vaccination process to resume on November 8 across Afghanistan...
WHO unveils new pandemic pathogen sleuth squad
Besides the Covid-19 crisis, a growing number of high-risk pathogens have appeared or reappeared in recent years.
Breakthrough malaria vaccine offers to reinvigorate the fight against the disease
The World Health Organization has announced a historic move: it has recommended the widespread use of the first ever...
WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa's children in major breakthrough
It is a major advance against the disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually
'افغانستان میں حفظانِ صحت کی فراہمی کی صورتحال تیزی سے بگڑ رہی ہے'
عالمی ادارہ صحت نے کہا ہے کہ افغانستان میں حفظانِ صحت کی فراہمی...
Children who eat more fruits and vegetables have better mental health
Around 10%-20% of adolescents globally suffer from a mental health condition, such as anxiety or depression,...
فضائی آلودگی کے سبب سالانہ 70 لاکھ اموات ہوتی ہیں
عالمی ادارہ صحت نے ماحول کے خطرناک فضائی آلودگی سے نمٹنے کےلئے...
Hundreds of health centres at risk of closure in Afghanistan: WHO
By Emma Farge
Hundreds of medical facilities in Afghanistan are at risk of imminent closure because the Western...
Coronavirus booster shots 'not a luxury', WHO Europe head says
A third-dose booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccination is a way to keep the most vulnerable safe and "not a luxury",...
First PIA cargo flight carrying WHO medical essentials lands in Mazar-e-Sharif
As PIA is providing air transport for the operation, the WHO will be arranging logistics on the ground.
WHO concerned about COVID-19 in Afghanistan as jabs slow
The World Health Organization (WHO) is worried about the spread of the coronavirus in Afghanistan as the upheaval...
WHO urges power players to end 'disgraceful' jab inequity
The UN health agency has been increasingly infuriated by what it sees as the moral outrage of ...
Blinken meets with WHO chief, backs study into Covid origins
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday and affirmed...
China should provide raw data on pandemic's origins - WHO's Tedros
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asked China to be transparent and open and to...
WHO sees 'likely' Covid vaccine link to rare heart inflammation
The UN health body's Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) said that...
Variants like Delta ‘winning race against vaccines’, says WHO chief
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that passing the four millionth recorded...
More infectious COVID-19 variants account for most UAE cases
New coronavirus infections in the United Arab Emirates are mostly from more infectious variants leading to an...
WHO pleads for vaccines as poor countries go wanting
By Michael Shields and Stephanie Nebehay
Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who...
Russia expects WHO to approve Sputnik V vaccine within 2 months
Russia expects the World Health Organization (WHO) to approve the Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus within two...
WHO narrows in on Delta Covid variant
GENEVA: The WHO said Tuesday that one strain of a Covid-19 variant first detected in India was now considered "of...
Sinovac becomes 2nd Chinese COVID vaccine approved by WHO for emergency use
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it has validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac COVID-19...
عالمی ادارہِ صحت کا کورونا کی اقسام کے ناموں کیلئے یونانی حروف کا اعلان
نیوریارک:عالمی ادارہِ صحت (ڈبلیو ایچ او) نے کورونا کی اقسام کے...
Total death toll from COVID-19 could be at least 6-8 million: WHO
At least 6-8 million people may have died due to the COVID-19 pandemic so far versus the World Health Organization's...
India's virus cases lower but WHO expert says positive tests ominously high
India on Monday reported a further decline in new coronavirus cases though daily deaths remained above 4,000 and...
چین کی تیار کردہ کورونا ویکسین قابل اعتبار قرار
کورونا کےخلاف چین کی تیارکردہ کورونا ویکسین قابل اعتبار...
WHO approves China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine
GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Friday approved the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use -- the...
