Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Last News

The world needs to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic in order to prepare for "even deadlier" viruses in the future, a World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has warned.

Brits are being warned about a new disease that could potentially "cause 20 times more deaths than Covid-19".

The World Health Organization today ended its designation of Covid as a “global health emergency.”

COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization said Friday, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide.«It's with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency,» WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.«That does not mean COVID-19 is over as a global health threat,» he said, adding he wouldn't hesitate to reconvene experts to reassess the situation should COVID-19 «put our world in peril.»The U.N. health agency says that thousands of people are still dying from the virus every week, and there have been recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. COVID was the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S.

The end of the Coronavirus pandemic is 'within sight' according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as weekly deaths from the virus around the world hit the lowest level since March 2020.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday declared a global health emergency over the rapid spread of monkeypox.

Carson Burton The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency.The rare designation means that the W.H.O. now views the outbreak as a significant enough threat to global health that a coordinated international response is needed.The announcement was made on Saturday morning for the W.H.O.’s second emergency committee on the issue this week. Dr.

Centaurus is the nickname of a new coronavirus subvariant that has been detected in around 10 countries, including the UK.

Governments should consider reintroducing Covid protection measures amid a global “increasing trend of deaths” from the virus, a World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has warned.

“At present there are a number of Omicron sub-lineages we’re following closely, including BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 and another recombinant detected, made up of BA.1 and BA.2,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today. That recombinant is called XE and, until today was the newest more-transmissible variant raising concern. Now there are subvariants BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1.

Prince Harry is continuing to highlight the glaring inequalities in access to COVID-19 vaccines.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry co-signed a letter with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a bid to get the “wealthiest” countries to help vaccinate the world’s population and end the COVID-19 pandemic.Last month, the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex announced that they had partnered with the WHO in order to open a “dialogue on the urgent need to achieve global vaccine equity.”In a letter co-signed by the WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the former royals demanded leaders from richer nations that will be present at this year’s G20 summit, to “end the Covid crisis” by “working to vaccinate the world's population”.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are continuing their pursuit for COVID-19 vaccine equity.

The world can bring the global COVID-19 pandemic under control in the coming months provided it distributes the necessary resources fairly, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told a news briefing on Monday.

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World Health Organisation team dispatched to China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus were refused access to the country at the last minute.

The Covid-19 pandemic will not be the last the world faces in the near future, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.

Will & Grace star Debra Messing has apologized after a tweet about Donald Trump was branded homophobic by other Twitter users.Messing, a notable LGBTQ ally, said that Trump would make a “popular boyfriend” to other inmates should he be imprisoned.Her tweet came in response to World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus applauding German Chancellor Angela Merkel for encouraging Germans to stay at home to aid the country’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.“AMERICA. THIS is a LEADER,” Messing wrote.

A vaccine against Covid-19 may be ready by year-end, according to the head of the World Health Organization.

The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxThe World Health Organisation chief hopes the coronavirus pandemic may end in less than two years.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the prediction today.He said: "Our situation now with more technology, of course with more connectiveness, the virus has a better chance of spreading, it can move fast.

There "might never be" a "silver bullet" treatment for the coronavirus pandemic, according to the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO).