Governments adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement in a plenary session of the World Health Assembly, the global health organisation’s peak decision-making body.
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WHO reaches accord to make world safer from pandemics in future
WHO Member states recently took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from future pandemics.
China confirms Human Metapneumovirus surge
China recording spike in Human Metapneumovirus cases
WHO urges China to share data five years after COVID-19 hit the world
WHO urges China to share data five years after COVID-19 hit the world
WHO says ‘just in case’ antibiotics widely overused during COVID-19 pandemic
Antibiotics widely overused during COVID-19
Vaccination reduces risk of long COVID-19 in children: Study
However, its role in protecting against persistent health problems in the months after COVID-19, or “long COVID”, was less clear.
Corbevax: Indian pharmaceutical firm Biological E. Limited’s COVID vaccine gets WHO’s emergency use listing
It is India’s first indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine that is based on a protein sub-unit platform.
WHO alerts COVID-19 risk still remains high
WHO warns that the the public health risk from COVID-19 still remains high.
Scientists find ongoing brain injury caused by COVID-19 may not always be detected by routine tests
A new study published December 22 in Nature Communications details that markers of brain injury are present in the blood many months after COVID-19 infection, despite inflammation blood tests being normal. The findings represent a major output from the University of Liverpool and King’s College London led COVID-19 Clinical Neuroscience Study (COVID-CNS) and also involves […]
