WHO warns up to 23m people could be affected by 7.8 tremor
Geneva—Up to 23 million people could be affected by the massive earthquake that has killed thousands in Turkey and Syria, ...
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WHO declares COVID still global crisis, pandemic at transition point
Geneva—Three years to the day after the World Health Organization (WHO) sounded the highest level of global alert over COVID-19, ...
Read moreMouth diseases hit nearly half of the world’s people—WHO
Rotting teeth, swollen gums, and oral cancers: nearly half the world's population suffer from mouth diseases, the World Health Organization ...
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WHO: Too early to lift global emergency status of COVID
The World Health Organization said it is too early to lift the highest-level alert for the COVID-19 crisis, with the ...
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WHO studying if COVID still merits highest alert
The World Health Organization’s COVID-19 emergency committee has started discussions if the pandemic still warrants the highest level of alarm ...
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WHO: Expect global rise in COVID cases
The World Health Organization is bracing for a global spike in new COVID-19 cases due to the colder weather that ...
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WHO tempers COVID gauge; end still far off
The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday tempered his assertion that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic was ...
Read moreEnd is in sight for pandemic —WHO chief
The number of newly reported COVID-19 cases have dropped dramatically, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, urging the world to ...
Read moreWHO sees more COVID patients, deaths in winter
An increase in global hospitalization and deaths from COVID-19 in the coming months is “reasonable to expect,” a World Health ...
Read moreWHO triggers highest alert on monkeypox
The World Health Organization on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak, which has affected nearly 17,000 people in 74 countries, to ...
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