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WHO says air pollution kills 7 mn a year, toughens guidelines

by Robin MILLARD Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - The World Health Organization strengthened its air quality guidelines on Wednesday,…

WHO says air pollution kills 7 million a year, toughens guidelines

by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization strengthened its air quality guidelines on Wednesday, saying air…

Delta overwhelming other Covid variants of concern: WHO

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- Delta has all but elbowed out the three other Covid-19 variants of concern, which now represent…

Cuba seeks WHO approval of its Covid-19 vaccines

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- Cuba said Wednesday it would seek World Health Organization approval for two home-grown coronavirus vaccines it…

WHO urges Covid vaccine booster moratorium until 2022

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization called Wednesday for countries to avoid giving out extra Covid jabs until…

PHL starts talks with vaccine manufacturers for booster shots, to sign “term sheet” soon to ensure supplies

Booster shots to be allocated initially for A1 sector or the health frontliners, says Galvez   (Eagle News) – The…

WHO monitoring new coronavirus variant named ‘Mu’

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu",…

WHO sounds alarm over rising Covid deaths in Europe

by Camille BAS-WOHLERT COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) -- The World Health warned Monday that 236,000 more people could die from Covid…

WHO experts say urgent search for Covid origins ‘stalled’

by Natalie HANDEL PARIS, France (AFP) -- The search for the origins of the Covid pandemic that has killed millions…

WHO slams wealthy nations’ rush towards Covid vaccine boosters

  GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization condemned Wednesday the rush by wealthy countries to provide Covid vaccine…

Ivory Coast records first case of Ebola: health minister

Ivory Coast has recorded a first case of Ebola, the health minister announced late Saturday, the first occurence of the…

China rejects need for further WHO coronavirus origins probe

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into the origins…

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