WHO reports 90% decrease of coronavirus incidence, mortality worldwide
GENEVA. KAZINFORM - Reported coronavirus cases and fatalities caused by this disease have dropped more than 90% from their peaks earlier this year, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday, noting that this was a welcome trend but the number of deaths reported over the past week (8,737) cannot be deemed «acceptable» since the global community now has the instruments to fight the pandemic, TASS reports.
WHO confirms 780 monkeypox cases in 27 countries
GENEVA. KAZINFORM The World Health Organization (WHO) has data on 780 confirmed monkeypox cases. Information on them was received from 27 countries that are non-endemic for this disease, according to the organization’s situation update published in Geneva on Sunday.
Head of WHO says threat of more dangerous coronavirus strain could be real
GENEVA. KAZINFORM - The threat of a new, more dangerous strain of coronavirus, against which existing vaccines will be powerless, is quite real, according to Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, TASS reports.
WHO says its European region is epicenter of monkeypox, with 218 confirmed cases
GENEVA. KAZINFORM The World Health Organization said Tuesday that its European Region is the epicenter of the largest, most geographically widespread monkeypox outbreak reported outside endemic areas in western and central Africa.
WHO connects monkeypox spread to absence of smallpox immunity
GENEVA. KAZINFORM - The fast spread of monkeypox in non-endemic states may be connected to the lack of immunity for this disease in the vast majority of population, because vaccination against smallpox ended back in 20th century, says World Health Organization (WHO) Smallpox Secretariat head Dr. Rosamund Lewis, TASS reports.
'COVID-19 is not over anywhere until it’s over everywhere', Tedros warns World Health Assembly
GENEVA. KAZINFORM The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) told global health Ministers on Sunday that although reported COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined significantly, it is not time to lower the guard.
WHO validates 3rd Chinese COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
GENEVA. KAZINFORM - The World Health Organization (WHO) validated on Thursday the CONVIDECIA COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese developer CanSino Biologics for emergency use, making it the third Chinese vaccine after Sinopharm and Sinopec having been certified by WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL), Xinhua reports.
COVID-19 digest: restrictions in China grow, Europe eases curbs
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - While China is tightening coronavirus-related restrictions to fight the spike in cases, European countries do the opposite, relaxing most of their coronavirus rules. More about the global situation with COVID-19 and in Kazakhstan is in the latest analytical article of Kazinform.
Number of coronavirus cases around the world falls by 12% over week - WHO
GENEVA. KAZINFORM Over 3.5 mln people have been infected with coronavirus over the past week, more than 12,000 have died. The number of new cases fell by 12% in comparison with last week, and the number of deaths - by 25%, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
World sees nearly 15M deaths 'directly or indirectly' related to COVID-19 in 2020-2021: WHO
GENEVA. KAZINFORM -The total death toll «associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic» between Jan. 1, 2020 and Dec. 31, 2021, was around 14.9 million, according to a new study released by the World Health Organization on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports.
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