カテゴリー: World Health Organization
Efforts to find origin of coronavirus ‘must look at what animals were in the market in late 2019’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA leading scientist has called for stallholders at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan to be int…
Analysis: the failings of the Covax programme, logistical issues and governments’ own inadequacies are making a bad situation worseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOnly 1% of the 1.3 billion vaccines injected around the world…
‘Very dangerous’ coronavirus variant is ‘more transmissible’ than previously known typesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Covid varian…
Spokesman says US president’s order to intelligence agencies is attempt to stigmatise Chinese government Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has hit out against Joe Biden’s calls for a fuller US investigation into how Covi…
To China’s fury, Joe Biden has ordered a review of rival theories about lab leaks and animal hostsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePresident Joe Biden has ordered US intelligence agencies to conduct a 90-day review of what is…
Foreign ministry responds to west’s human rights claims, saying countries should ‘face up to their own problems’China has rejected accusations of human rights abuse and economic coercion, made by G7 foreign ministers, accusing them of “blatantly meddli…
US now supports bid to allow poorer nations to make cheap copies of vaccines, but Australia is holding out • US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccinesPressure is mounting on Australia to support the waiver of intellectual property prot…
Spain and Philippines join Cambodia and Fiji in restricting arrivals; England extends vaccines to those aged 42 and overMutations, politics, vaccines: the factors behind India’s Covid crisisGlobal faith leaders call for drug firms to vaccinate worldInt…
World Health Organization says ‘confusion and complacency’ prolonging global situationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe global coronavirus pandemic is still growing exponentially, the World Health Organization said on Mond…
Statement signed by 12 other nations says investigation into virus origins not extensive enoughCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US and the UK have sharply criticised a World Health Organization report into the beginnings …
Much-delayed report from team that visited Wuhan all but rules out lab leak theory Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal, an international expert mission to …
World Health Organization tells countries to continue using jab while it looks into blood clot reportsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA World Health Organization expert advisory committee is looking at the Oxford/AstraZeneca…
Largest such study finds domestic violence experienced by one-in-four teenage girls with worst levels faced by women in their 30s One in four women and girls around the world have been physically or sexually assaulted by a husband or male partner, acco…
Exclusive: summary from visit last year reveals Chinese officials offered scant detailsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese officials did “little” in terms of epidemiological investigations into the origins of the Covid-1…
Australian infection expert, part of a team visiting Wuhan, says they were provided only with a summary of dataCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThere is growing controversy over a World Health Organization investigation into …