WHO asks patients to take two doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in 21-28 days
The World Health Organization said Tuesday COVID-19 patients should take two doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine within 21-28…
WHO does not envisage COVID-19 vaccines being made mandatory
The World Health Organization does not foresee mandatory vaccinations being introduced around the world to stem the spread of the…
WHO says ‘will do everything’ to discover origin of Covid-19
The World Health Organization insisted Monday it would do everything possible to find the animal origins of Covid-19. “We want…
Sanofi, GSK to supply vaccine doses to WHO-backed alliance
French drugmaker Sanofi and Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline will supply 200 million doses of their COVID-19 candidate vaccine to a global inoculation…
COVID-19: WHO chief goes into quarantine
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is going into isolation after he revealed he had been in close…
WHO welcomes COVID-19 immunity study, gives hopes for vaccines
A British study that found people who have had COVID-19 are unlikely to contract the disease again for at least…
China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme rejected by Trump
China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it…
WHO says vaccine safety top priority, as AstraZeneca pauses study
Safety of a prospective COVID-19 vaccine comes “first and foremost”, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said on Wednesday, as…
Pandemic pace slows worldwide except for southeast Asia, eastern Mediterranean: WHO
The COVID-19 pandemic is still expanding, but the rise in cases and deaths has slowed globally, except for southeast Asia…
WHO says 172 countries engaging with global COVID-19 vaccine plan
Some 172 countries are engaging with the COVAX facility designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health…