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A staff scan the e-ticket of a visitor at the Singapore Zoo in Singapore on July 6, 2020, on its first day of reopening to the public after the attraction was temporarily closed due to concerns about the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Can coronavirus spread through air? Hundreds of experts say yes

Scientists say there is evidence that coronavirus is airborne, ask WHO to revise its pandemic guideline

6 July 2020 12:36 PM IST

A Christian woman wearing a face mask to help protect against the spread of the new coronavirus scans a QR code on her smartphone before attending a service at the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

Record spike in daily global coronavirus cases, up more than 212,000

Global coronavirus cases exceeded 11 million on Friday, marking another unfortunate milestone in the spread of the...

5 July 2020 10:42 AM IST

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (AFP)

WHO hopes COVID will be over within two years, quicker than world got...

Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in Germany, France,...

22 Aug 2020 3:27 PM IST

Across Africa and around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs to many of the more than 24 million people who take them, endangering their lives.(AP)

WHO team to assist South Africa in reinforcing COVID-19 response

South Africa, at present, has the world's fifth largest virus caseload with over 5,79,000 confirmed cases and more than...

16 Aug 2020 12:35 PM IST

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. (AP Photo)

People should not fear spread of COVID-19 in food, packaging: WHO

China had said they found traces of coronavirus in imported frozen meat from Brazil and on outer packaging of frozen...

14 Aug 2020 10:26 AM IST

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, and Taiwans President Tsai Ing-wen (right) speaks during a meeting in Taipei. (via @iingwen)

US health chief offers Taiwan 'strong' support in landmark visit

Washington had broken off official ties with Taiwan in 1979 in favour of Beijing

10 Aug 2020 11:30 AM IST

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP)

The effects of the pandemic will be felt for decades to come: WHO

The agency also said the effects of the pandemic 'will be felt for decades to come' in an emergency WHO committee...

2 Aug 2020 12:25 PM IST

World must be better prepared for next pandemic, says WHO chief

World must be better prepared for next pandemic, says WHO chief

But when the next pandemic comes, the world must be ready more ready than it was this time,' Ghebreyesus told a news...

9 Sept 2020 10:54 AM IST

This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. (AP)

Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19

Some experts predict various treatments eventually will be used in combination to fight the coronavirus

28 Oct 2021 12:30 PM IST

World Health Organization (WHO) sign in Geneva next to their headquarters. (AFP)

Fake News: WHO denies issuing warning of 50,000 COVID-19 deaths in...

India has so far reported over 1,26,86,049 COVID-19 cases. The death toll in the country has gone up to 1,65,547

6 April 2021 1:35 PM IST

A health worker conducts Covid-19 testing at Ram Manohar Lohiya Hospital in Lucknow.(Photo: PTI)

India asks social media firms to remove reference to 'Indian variant'...

Around the world, coronvirus variants have generically been referred to by doctors, health experts on the basis of where...

22 May 2021 12:04 PM IST

The UN health agency said work was under way to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of Delta and why it is more transmissible. (Representational image: PTI)

Delta not specifically targeting children: WHO

Delta has now been detected in 132 countries and is more transmissible than earlier versions of the virus

31 July 2021 12:19 PM IST