WHO chief faults COVID-19 report for dismissing lab leak theory
A group of more than a dozen nations, including Japan and the U.S., issued a joint statement saying the mission’s report lacked sufficient access.
WHO warns against COVID-19 complacency after Moderna vaccine news
"Right now we are extremely concerned by the surge in cases we are seeing in some countries," WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing.
Proportion of youth with COVID-19 triples in five months, WHO says
Young people who are hitting nightclubs and beaches are leading a rise in fresh coronavirus cases across the world, with the proportion of those aged 15 to 24 who are infected rising threefold in about five months, the World Health Organization said. An analysis by ...
World will be feeling the effects of the virus for decades, WHO says
The WHO said Friday that effects of the coronavirus pandemic would be felt for decades as its emergency committee assessed the situation six months after sounding its top alarm over the outbreak. The novel coronavirus has killed nearly 675,000 people and infected at least 17.3 ...
The World Health Organization pointed Tuesday to "emerging evidence" that the coronavirus might spread by air further than previously thought, and warned the pandemic was still accelerating. The WHO said it would put out a new scientific brief within days, after an international group of ...
Coronavirus cases top 9 million as WHO says pandemic 'accelerating'
The WHO chief said the greatest threat facing the world was not the virus itself but "the lack of global solidarity and global leadership."
WHO says pandemic 'far from over' as daily cases hit record high
More than 136,000 new cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, the most in a single day so far.
WHO to review virus response as Trump renews attack, calling it a 'puppet of China'
Many countries have hailed the WHO's efforts, but the U.S. maintains its "failure" to obtain vital COVID-19 information has cost lives.
Caught in Trump-China feud, WHO leader under siege
The internal debate over the WHO’s messaging around China provides a window into the challenges facing the 72-year-old U.N. organization and its leader.
WHO chief says pandemic 'far from over,' expressing worry about children
The coronavirus pandemic is "far from over" and is still disrupting normal health services, especially life-saving immunization for children in the poorest countries, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday. The U.N. agency is concerned about rising numbers of cases and deaths ...
WHO insists it hid nothing and sounded coronavirus alarm from start
The World Health Organization insisted Monday that it sounded the alarm on the novel coronavirus right from the very start and had hidden nothing from Washington about the deadly pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there were no secrets at the U.N. agency after ...
WHO to work toward success of Tokyo Olympics, Tedros tells Abe
The head of the World Health Organization told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday that he wants to make preparations with Japan for the "success" of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Speaking by phone, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed his support for Japan's agreement ...
