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Restrictions some countries have introduced in response to China’s Covid-19 surge are “understandable”, given the lack of information from Beijing, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom…
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As China is witnessing a massive surge in coronavirus infections, several hospitals in the country are reportedly struggling to cope with the influx of patients. On Wednesday, China reported 3,030 new symptomatic cases and 2,966 new local…
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The World Health Organization is planning to rename monkeypox, designating it as “MPOX” in an effort to destigmatize the virus that gained a foothold in the United States earlier this year, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing people with…
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The World Health Organisation has compiled the first ever list of fungal diseases that are most dangerous to human health and has issued a warning that some strains are becoming more and more common and drug-resistant. According to the…
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World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Thursday said that some countries may see “another wave of infections” with the XBB subvariant of Omicron. But the Indian clinical scientist also added that till now…
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The Haryana government has shut down the production of cough syrups in Sonipat-based company Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited’s plants. The action was taken days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) flagged the deaths of over 60…
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The World Health Organization is yet to provide the exact “one to one causal relation of death” in the Indian cough syrup case, news agency PTI reported quoting official sources after WHO on Wednesday warned against four Indian cough syrups…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), revising treatment guidelines for Covid-19, has strongly advised against the use of two antibody drugs – sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab. WHO said that these drugs are likely to be ineffective…
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Nasal Covid-19 vaccines could help to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control, the World Health Organization said Wednesday after homegrown products were approved in India and China. The WHO welcomed the new front in the fight against…
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The number of monkeypox cases reported globally dropped 21% in the last week, reversing a month-long trend of rising infections and signaling that Europe’s outbreak may be starting to decline, the World Health Organization said Thursday.…
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