World Health Organization
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Ebola outbreak that killed 12 in Guinea declared over by WHOThe Ebola outbreak in 2014-2016 killed 11,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.WorldJun 19
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Vaccinating kids against COVID-19 ‘not a high priority,’ WHO saysWHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged rich countries to donate shots to poor countries rather than immunize their adolescents and children.HealthJun 3
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China’s Sinovac vaccine gets emergency use approval from WHOSinovac said that it had supplied more than 600 million doses of its vaccine at home and abroad as of end-May.WorldJun 1
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Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta: WHO officially names COVID-19 variants of concernThe WHO will use the Greek alphabet to label coronavirus variants, rather than referring to countries where they were first detected.HealthJun 1
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U.S. urges WHO to begin 2nd phase of COVID-19 origin investigation in ChinaThe initial WHO study was "insufficient and inconclusive," the U.S. mission to the U.N. in Geneva said in a statement on Thursday.WorldMay 27
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‘Scandalous inequity’: WHO says 75% of vaccines given out in just 10 countriesWHO's chief urged countries to donate vaccine doses to COVAX to enable 10 per cent of the populations of all countries to be inoculated by September and 30 per cent by year-end.WorldMay 24
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COVID-19 death tolls could be up to three times above official counts: WHOThe WHO estimates that total deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 were at least 3 million or 1.2 million more than 1.8 million figure officially reported.HealthMay 21
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G20 leaders snub COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, watering down WHO funding commitmentsThe Biden administration earlier in May joined India, South Africa and many other developing countries in calling for a temporary waiver of patents for COVID-19 vaccines.HealthMay 18
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Working to death: Canadians need legal right to disconnect, experts sayExperts say a new study highlights the dangers associated with working long hours, and that change needs to come at a policy level.CanadaMay 17
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Long work hours can be deadly. WHO says COVID-19 may have increased risksThe World Health Organization showed that the deaths often occurred much later in life, sometimes decades later, than the shifts worked.WorldMay 17
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