By the end of this year, the Covid-19 epidemic will no longer be regarded as a global health emergency, according to World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Tedros stated in a speech at the University of Michigan that he is “confident that at some point this year we will be able to say that Covid-19 is over as a public health emergency of international concern... 

The coronavirus epidemic remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief warned Monday, telling the world to keep getting vaccinated and boosted, use antivirals, and heed directions from the Switzerland-based instrumentality. State health bodies have also been cautioned to “continue to monitor individual and public response” to directions. Speaking at the opening... 

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the second year of the ongoing pandemic is set to be deadlier than the first, while urging countries to help boost the COVAX vaccine scheme against Covid-19. Speaking at a media briefing on Friday, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus laid out the WHO’s concerns about the slow rollout of the vaccination scheme, as rich countries snap up doses... 

The head of the World Health Organization warned Monday against suggestions by some to just allow COVID-19 to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity, saying this was “unethical.” “Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a virtual press briefing. He explained that “herd... 

Well now… there you go! Some countries are using boosters to kill children and that’s not right, we were supposed to kill only the elderly said World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus… There’s not much to comment here, it is what it is. We appreciate his sincerity and being upfront about this as all this dumb dancing around the camp fire, pretending... 

The World Health Organisation (WHO) director general has warned vaccinated people to be cautious and not fall into a “false sense of security” regarding covid-19. During a WHO media briefing about the apparent covid crisis in Europe on Wednesday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “In many countries and communities, we are concerned about the false sense of security that vaccines have ended... 

Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and pro-Taiwan advocate Taro Aso had some harsh words for the World Health Organization and its compliance with Chinese Communist Party propaganda on Sunday. Speaking to Japanese lawmakers, Taro Aso referenced a Change.org petition calling for the removal of WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Although the details are murky, the WHO’s previous Director... 

The deadly Ebola outbreak in Congo is now an international health emergency, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday after a case was confirmed in a city of 2 million people . A WHO expert committee declined on three previous occasions to advise the United Nations health agency to make the declaration for this outbreak, even though other experts say it has long met the required conditions.... 

African heads of state have taken part in a summit meeting on relations with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa. The summit kicked off on Saturday, with the African leaders urging the international body not to prosecute the continent’s incumbent heads of state. They also called on the ICC to defer the trials of presidents of Kenya and Sudan. Kenyan...