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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
Workers unloading medical supplies from the special flight at the Yangon International Airport on 31 May 2020. Photo: MNA
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01 June 2020
WHO flight arrives at Yangon airport
A first flight bringing medical supplies and laboratory equipment donated by the World...
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with industry executives on the reopening of the economy at the White House in Washington, DC., USA, 29 May 2020. Photo: EPA
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30 May 2020
Trump cuts ties with WHO mid-pandemic, as Europe...
US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was severing ties with the World Health...
(File) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), informs to the media about the last updates regarding on the novel coronavirus COVID-19 during a new press conference, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 09 March 2020. Photo: EPA
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09 May 2020
China supports WHO-led review of global pandemic...
China said Friday it supports a World Health Organization-led review into the global...
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24 April 2020
China to give WHO $30 million more after US...
China announced Thursday it will give another $30 million to the World Health...
Members of the Myanmar Red Cross carry a dead body of a driver from a boat in Sittwe, Rakhine State on April 21, 2020 killed while delivering test kits for COVID-19 coronavirus. Photo: AFP
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22 April 2020
Driver killed in attack on UN vehicle in Myanmar...
A Myanmar government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Photo: EPA
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16 April 2020
WHO chief hails India's step to engage in...
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday appreciated India's...
President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 14 April 2020. Photo: EPA
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15 April 2020
Trump announces funding halt to World Health...
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday a suspension of US funding to the World Health...
People wearing protective face masks shop at a chicken stall at a wet market in Shanghai, China. Photo: AFP
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08 April 2020
Worldwide call to ban wet markets in light of the...
A total of 241 organizations from around the world have written a letter to the World...
A border officer takes a woman's temperature at a customs checkpoint in Sungai Kolok in southern Thailand on the border with Malaysia on March 15 (AFP Photo/Madaree TOHLALA)
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18 March 2020
WHO says 'aggressive' action needed in...
The World Health Organization called for "aggressive" action in Southeast Asia to combat...
The virus has infected thousands in China and spread to dozens of other countries (AFP PHOTO/ GREG BAKER)
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12 February 2020
WHO chief sees chance to stop virus, warns of...
The death toll in China from the new coronavirus epidemic jumped on Wednesday, as the...
Antibiotic resistance happens when bugs become immune to existing drugs, rendering minor injuries and common infections potentially deadly.
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18 January 2020
As superbugs spread, WHO raises alarm over lack...
The World Health Organization warned Friday that a dire lack of new antibiotics was...
Sittwe General Hospital, Rakhine. Photo: Mizzima
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03 September 2018
Over 400 schistosomiasis cases reported in Rakhine
World Health Organization experts joined local officials from the Myanmar Ministry of...

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