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Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) are seen on a steet near a residential community that just opened after a lockdown due to Covid-19 coronavirus restrictions in Beijing on December 9, 2022. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)
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15 December 2022
China Covid 'explosion' began before restrictions eased: WHO
People sing slogans while gathering on a street in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, where protests against China's zero-Covid policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)
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05 December 2022
WHO 'pleased' with China's...
The World Health Organization has cheered China's loosening of its zero-Covid policy,...
In this file handout photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention taken in 1997 during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), depicts the dorsal surfaces of a monkeypox case in a patient who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. Photo: AFP
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24 June 2022
WHO emergency committee decides on monkeypox...
A World Health Organization committee of experts met Thursday to decide whether the...
A handout picture made available by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on June 22, 2022 shows a collage of monkeypox rash lesions at an undisclosed date and location. Photo: AFP
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23 June 2022
South Korea reports first imported case of...
South Korea reported its first imported cases of monkeypox Wednesday, becoming the latest...
A Health worker takes a swab sample from a woman by the entrance of a residential area under Covid-19 lockdown in the Xuhui district of Shanghai on June 8, 2022. Photo: Hector RETAMAL / AFP
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10 June 2022
Covid lab leak theory needs more research: WHO...
Scientists advising the World Health Organization on how to move forward investigating...
Mawlamyine. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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10 June 2022
WHO worker shot dead in Myanmar
A driver for the World Health Organization in Myanmar has been shot dead, his employer...
This handout photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was taken in 1997 during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and depicts the dorsal surfaces of a monkeypox case in a patient who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. Photo: AFP
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02 June 2022
Monkeypox has likely spread undetected 'for...
The WHO said Wednesday that hundreds of monkeypox cases have surfaced beyond the African...
Residents are seen boarding an ambulance on a street next to a neigborhood during a Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on May 8, 2022. Photo: AFP
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11 May 2022
WHO says China's zero-Covid strategy...
China's flagship zero-Covid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable, the World...
A health worker vaccinates a child against malaria in Ndhiwa, Homabay County, western Kenya. Photo: AFP
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22 April 2022
More than one million African children protected...
More than a million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received at least one...
Fresh data from WHO showed that every corner of the globe is dealing with air pollution (Photo: AFP)
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05 April 2022
Nearly entire global population breathing...
A full 99 percent of people on Earth breathe air containing too many pollutants, the...
World Health Organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Photo: AFP
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12 February 2022
Pandemic's 'acute phase' could end...
The head of the World Health Organization said Friday the acute phase of the pandemic...
Researchers work in a lab of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 23 February 2017 (issued 16 April 2020). Photo: EPA
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14 August 2021
China rejects need for further WHO coronavirus...
China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into...
HONG KONG , CHIINA : Last year 40 cases of the mosquito-born disease Dengue Fever where reported in Hong Kong . Photo: EPA
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03 July 2021
China certified malaria-free after 70-year fight
China was certified as malaria-free this week by the World Health Organization, following...

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