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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday warned that Nipah virus cases are rare but can be severe, emphasizing that the current outbreak is limited to India. In a post on X, Ghebreyesus noted,…
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The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday rejected Washington’s stated reasons for withdrawing from the agency, calling US criticism “untrue” and warning that the move would make both the United States and the world less safe.…
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The Iran-Israel conflict escalated sharply on Thursday as both nations exchanged powerful strikes on the seventh day of the military standoff. Israeli forces targeted Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor — a critical nuclear facility — shortly…
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Former US president Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday aged 100, “saved countless lives” through his work to eliminate diseases, the head of the World Health Organization said. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply saddened…
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The World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recalled the pain of his own wartime upbringing in Ethiopia as he pleaded global leaders to unite for peace and called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war…
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Finding the origin of Covid is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, World Health Organization head said affirming that the UN body is committed to finding how the virus arose, marking his strongest comments yet on the…
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World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus while addressing the crowd during the inaugural ceremony of the WHO-Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, greeted the public in Gujarati,…
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WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, who landed in Gujarat’s Rajkot on Monday night, thanked the government for a “warm welcome” hours before he was set to attend key events with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his home state. Tedros is on a…
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World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has pointed out two reasons that will trigger the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic to drag on, and create an “ideal condition” for more new variants of the virus to…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned that the more transmissible Omicron together with the currently circulating Delta variants might lead to "a tsunami of cases," putting immense pressure on national health systems. Recapping…
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