The declaration represents a major step towards ending the pandemic. It comes three years after it first declared its highest level of alert over the virus.
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“I condemn all loss of lives and we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in #Sudan,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, in Geneva on Tuesday.
Stefanishyna accused Russia of a “terroristic plan”, with attacks coming from the air and also by land.
The appointment was announced by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, earlier in the week.
The WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, revealed this at a news briefing at the WHO headquarters.
Referring to pledged funding for the international vaccine distribution mechanism, WHO Director- General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “Even if you have the money, if you cannot use the money to buy vaccines having the money doesn’t mean anything.’’
The European Union’s executive arm “will ensure that the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol is unaffected. The Commission is not triggering the safeguard clause,” it said in a written statement.
Ghebreyesus gave the warning in a video released to mark the first-ever International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday.
“Across Europe and North America, hospitals and intensive care units (ICU) are filling up or are full”, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said at a regular press briefing in Geneva.
“More than 170 countries have joined the COVAX facility,’’ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in pre-recorded comments in a webinar ahead of Friday’s deadline to join the facility.
In May, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said Africa was the least affected region in the world in terms of COVID-19 cases and deaths
The World Health Organisation says no fewer than than 132,000 cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) have now been reported to WHO, from 123 countries and territories.
WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced this at a news conference in Geneva at the conclusion of a two-day research and innovation forum on COVID-19
The World Health Organisation says no fewer than 1.35 million people die annually from road traffic accidents.
Members of the WHO Emergency Committee deliberated until late on Wednesday evening as they continue to study an outbreak of the new respiratory virus first identified in China, as cases continue to rise.
The World Health Organisation has declared Algeria and Argentina malaria-free.
According to a WHO report, ambient or outdoor air pollution alone caused some 4.2 million deaths in 2016, while household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels and technologies caused an estimated 3.8 million deaths in the same period.
The mosquito-borne viral disease is a major killer in Africa, where it can spread fast in highly populated areas with devastating consequences.
WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, named Mugabe to the largely ceremonial post at a meeting on chronic diseases attended by both men in Uruguay on Wednesday.
According to the UN organizations, more than half of the world population lacked adequate toilet facilities, which increases the risk of diseases.