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US students who took India's Covaxin, Russia's Sputnik V, asked to get re-vaccinated

Since March, over 400 US colleges and universities have announced students get Covid-19 vaccinations, ahead of the Autumn semester but those who have...

Friday, June 4, 2021 10:44 AM

Must find ways to ensure affordable access to key drugs amid COVID-19: Harsh Vardhan

As Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan completed his tenure as the Chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board, he said that there...

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 4:21 PM

COVID-19: WHO renames coronavirus B.1.617.2 strain as 'Delta variant'

The World Health Organization (WHO) renamed the B.1.617.2 variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, as the 'Delta variant'.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021 9:15 AM

India terms WHO-convened study on COVID-19 origin as 'important first step', calls for cooperation o...

India on Friday termed the World Health Organisation's (WHO) global study on the origins of COVID-19 as an "important first step" and stressed the nee...

Friday, May 28, 2021 4:57 PM

World is at risk of 'vaccine apartheid', says WHO chief

Highlighting the gap of vaccinations between high-income countries and low and lower-middle countries, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-Genera...

Tuesday, May 18, 2021 9:28 AM

WHO classifies B1617 COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, as variant of global concern

The coronavirus variant B1617 first identified in India last year has been classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies sh...

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12:17 PM

Mumbai civic body denies suppressing COVID-19 death toll

The Mumbai civic body has denied allegations of suppressing the COVID-19 death and infection figures and said it was recording the number of fatalitie...

Monday, May 10, 2021 10:58 AM

WHO bolsters support to India to tackle second COVID-19 wave

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it has bolstered its COVID-19 response in India by redeploying 2,600 health experts from other programs...

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:14 PM

WHO team probing COVID-19 visits Wuhan lab, meets 'Bat Woman'

A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan and met with a promi...

Saturday, February 27, 2021 11:25 AM

China refused to provide WHO team with raw data on early COVID cases, team member says

China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s...

Saturday, February 13, 2021 6:00 PM

WHO open to all hypotheses on coronavirus origins: Tedros

The World Health Organization's (WHO) team probing coronavirus origins, which is on a visit to China's Wuhan, the first Covid-19 hotspot, will publish...

Saturday, February 13, 2021 12:03 PM

WHO official leading Wuhan COVID probe says cold-chain transmission possible

The head of the World Health Organization-led team in the central Chinese city of Wuhan probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that cold chai...

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 5:40 PM

WHO official says Wuhan probe does not dramatically change picture of outbreak

The head of the World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that its investigation had uncovered new informatio...

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 5:36 PM

WHO team visits 2nd Wuhan hospital in virus investigation

Members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated earl...

Saturday, January 30, 2021 1:39 PM

WHO chief lauds India, PM Modi for support to global COVID-19 response

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday expressed gratitude to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for continu...

Saturday, January 23, 2021 5:42 PM

10 WHO experts arrive at Wuhan to investigate COVID-19 origin

A team of 10 World Health Organisation (WHO) experts arrived in Wuhan on Thursday to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, where it began...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 1:38 PM

Second year of Covid-19 pandemic could be more difficult than first: WHO

The second year of the coronavirus pandemic could be more difficult than the first one over the transmission dynamics, Executive Director of the WHO H...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:12 AM

Tedros refutes new Japanese coronavirus mutation more aggressive

There is no evidence to suggest that the newly-detected Japanese mutation made the coronavirus more aggressive, World Health Organisation (WHO) Direct...

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 1:08 PM

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