World Health Organization

WHO Headquarters in Geneva. Photo: Wikipedia
27 May 2021
Faced with the dilemma of who to recognise as Myanmar's legitimate representative...
A box with a dose of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine. Photo: EPA
09 May 2021
The World Health Organization on Friday approved the first COVID-19 vaccine from China in...
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07 March 2021
The World Health Organization has scrapped plans for a team that visited Wuhan, China to...
Peter Ben Embarek (C-L) leaves after visiting with other members of World Health Organization (WHO) Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, in Wuhan, China, 29 January 2021. Photo: EPA
05 February 2021
World Health Organization inspectors had "very frank" discussions with Chinese scientists...
A view of an Aedes aegypti mosquito resting on a mosquito net at a house in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
30 November 2020
Progress in eliminating malaria has stalled in recent years, the World Health...
The UN health agency welcomed the fact that a "considerable number" of vaccine candidates had entered final stage trials (Photo: AFP)
06 September 2020
The World Health Organization said Friday it did not expect widespread immunisation...
Shoppers wear face masks on Oxford Street in London after face coverings became mandatory in shops and supermarkets in Britain (AFP Photo/Tolga AKMEN)
25 July 2020
The World Health Organization expressed concern last week over a coronavirus resurgence...
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a press conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 03 July 2020. Photo: EPA
12 July 2020
The World Health Organization has urged countries grappling with coronavirus to step up...
This CDC illustration reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Alissa Eckert, Dan Higgins/CDC
12 July 2020
The US welcomes the World Health Organization's probe into the origins of the novel...
People wearing protective face masks wait for the traffic light during morning rush hour in Beijing, China, 03 July 2020. Photo: EPA
11 July 2020
An epidemiologist and an animal health specialist from the World Health Organization were...
Sweden is not happy with the WHO (AFP Photo/Stina STJERNKVIST)
27 June 2020
Sweden accused the World Health Organization on Friday of a "total misinterpretation" of...
Workers unloading medical supplies from the special flight at the Yangon International Airport on 14 June, 2020. Photo: MNA
15 June 2020
A special flight bringing laboratory equipment donated by the World Health Organization-...

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