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Vaccine inequity 'driving up transmissions' despite declining caseloads, WHO official says
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's COVID-19 technical lead, tells Power & Politics that despite the weekly decline in cases and deaths around the world, the lack of vaccine equity is still driving up infections in...
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U.S. to accept international travellers with WHO-approved vaccines
The U.S. will soon accept international travellers who are inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine that has been approved by the World Health Organization.
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Malaria vaccine approval has already had 'tremendous impact', WHO official says
Dr. Mary Hamel, the World Health Organization's malaria vaccine implementation lead, says the recent approval of the vaccine has already had a 'tremendous impact' in the fight against malaria and the challenge moving forward will be...
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Too much talk, too little action on vaccine equity: WHO chief
The World Health Organization's director general says lower income countries cannot be satisfied with vaccine 'leftovers' after richest countries 'have been taken care of.' (Themba Hadebe/Associated Press Photo)
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WHO calls for temporary halt on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots
Saying the priority should be on immunizing health-care workers in low- and middle-income countries, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for a temporary moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters.
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Get more vaccines to poorer countries, WHO's Tedros says
Calling the inequity in worldwide COVID-19 vaccine distribution 'scandalous,' the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on governments and drug makers to donate more vaccines to poorer countries.
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The Front Page: Dominic Cummings gets his revenge on Boris and London Covid hospital admissions up
The Front Page: Dominic Cummings gets his revenge on Boris and London Covid hospital admissions up
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Pandemic review panel concludes COVID-19 was preventable
In an exclusive interview, former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark tells Power & Politics the COVID-19 could have been prevented had world leaders and the WHO acted faster to contain the spread of the virus.
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Pandemic still long way from over, WHO says
Saying he, too, wants to see societies and economies opening up eventually, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said now is not the time to do that as the COVID-19 pandemic is still far from over.
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WHO lauds Greece for program to vaccinate refugees
Greece's plan to include tens of thousands of refugees in its national vaccination rollout against COVID-19 is a clear example of equity needed inside borders to defeat the coronavirus, says Dr. Hans Kluge, the World Health...
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WHO advisor raises concerns about COVID-19 booster shots
Dr. Peter Singer, the special advisor to the director general of the World Health Organization, called for sharing COVID-19 vaccines globally before administering booster shots for fully vaccinated people at lower risk. Singer said two...
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WHO adviser raises concerns about COVID-19 booster shots
Dr. Peter Singer, the special adviser to the director general of the World Health Organization, called for sharing COVID-19 vaccines globally before administering booster shots for fully vaccinated people at lower risk. Singer said two...
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WHO, some world leaders urge creation of pandemic treaty
The World Health Organization says a global treaty should be crafted for future pandemic preparedness before the current coronavirus pandemic ends. But the U.S. and China were not part of the initial push for such a treaty.
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Long slog ahead to find origins of novel coronavirus, says WHO
The World Health Organization team working to uncover the origins of the coronavirus says there is still a formidable amount of work to be done.
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WHO finds AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective
The World Organization's advisory committee on vaccine saftey says the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine's benefits outweigh the risks and the shot saves lives.
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Denmark, Norway suspend AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot fears
Use of vaccine paused for 14 days in Denmark while investigators probe reports of possible ‘serious side-effects’.
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WHO approves emergency use for Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
The WHO says the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is easier to administer than some of the other vaccines because it requires only one dose and does not need to be stored at extremely cold temperatures.
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Number of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil exceeds 275,000
Brazil is facing the worst phase of the pandemic since it registered its first death exactly a year ago.
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WHO to send over 11,000 Ebola vaccines to Guinea amid outbreak
The shots are expected to arrive on Sunday and the inoculation campaign could start on Monday.
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WHO team appears to rule out Chinese lab as source of coronavirus
Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, a World Health Organization expert who is part of the team investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus, says it is 'extremely unlikely' the virus came from a lab in Wuhan, China.
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WHO team dismisses theory COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan lab
World Health Organization researchers in Wuhan say the virus likely jumped from animals to humans, but they have yet to identify the animal host that triggered the outbreak.
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WHO rejects criticism of probe into Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak
On Monday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said China was falling 'short' in providing adequate access to scientists on the ground.
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WHO team mum after visit to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology
A special team from the World Health Organization has visited China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, a key site in their search for the origins of the coronavirus. The team did not speak to waiting journalists after the visit.
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Trudeau is asked about the latest WHO report on the Covid virus
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with the CBC's Tom Parry on Tuesday outside Rideau Cottage.