投稿者: Sarah Boseley Health editor
Focus on vaccines and tests has been obscuring the need for oxygen in low- and middle-income countries Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage The scenes in India of families desperately searching for oxygen for critically ill Cov…
UK experts say easing physical distancing would depend on rigorous testing and isolationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s tough lockdown and physical distancing measures in Wuhan and other provinces appear to have succ…
Beijing’s draconian measures to contain outbreak have delayed global transmissionThe World Health Organization is having to perform a diplomatic balancing act over the new coronavirus outbreak, caught between China – whose draconian measures to contain…
WHO is seeking information after country announced six health professionals had diedCoronavirus – latest newsThe World Health Organization is seeking more information from China about the large numbers of health workers falling sick because of the coro…
Fight against coronavirus being hampered by stockpiling of equipment, says body’s chiefThe fight against the coronavirus epidemic is being hampered by serious global shortages of face masks and protective suits, according to the World Health Organizati…
News of Kaletra being tested as a possible treatment for the disease sparks panic buying Coronavirus – latest newsA drug used to treat people with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is being trialled in patients in China as a possible therapy against the…
It’s wrong to say all regions of the Asian country are equally at risk, says body’s director generalFollow the latest developmentsThe UK has been criticised by the World Health Organization’s director general for urging all its 30,000 citizens in China…
Countries urged to be on alert as number of confirmed cases passes 6,000The whole world must be on alert to deal with the spread of coronavirus, the World Health Organization has said as it urged countries to prepare so that they are ready to detect an…
Man infected by colleague who appeared not to have symptoms when virus was transmittedLatest Coronavirus news: live updatesThe first human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus in Europe has been reported in Germany, where a man was infected b…
Experts fear latest strain of virus may spread across planet from person to person It is a novel coronavirus – that is to say, a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals…
Investigation finds children were being treated for ailments that can be cured with pills More than 700 children in Pakistan were infected with HIV, the virus that can cause Aids, through unsafe injections to treat them for conditions such as diarrhoea…
Investigation finds children were being treated for ailments that can be cured with pills More than 700 children in Pakistan were infected with HIV, the virus that can cause Aids, through unsafe injections to treat them for conditions such as diarrhoea…
Diets heavy on snack foods linked to undernutrition and stunting, say researchersChildren under the age of two in Nepal are getting a quarter of their calories from junk food, according to groundbreaking research that warns their diet is linked to stun…