The Latest Breaking News from WHO

Bowie’s stone will join those honouring The Who, Madness and Amy Winehouse in London.

The head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) in South Australia says the organisation is "already concerned" about the BA.2.75 subvariant of COVID-19 "on the horizon", but the federal health department says there has only been 150 recorded cases in the country so far.

A senior World Health Organization director has been placed on leave, a spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday, following staff accusations of bullying and other complaints.

More people were wearing masks and social distancing in previous years, which may have kept flu cases at bay

Global health officials are still unsure what the impact of the forthcoming flu season will be.

It is possible to eliminate the monkeypox outbreak in Europe, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday, highlighting evidence that case counts are slowing in a handful of countries.

The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence

Inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines has turned out to be the catastrophic moral failure the World Health Organization’s director-general warned about at the beginning of 2021.

The government has affirmed its stance against vaping, saying e-cigarettes are affecting the health of vapers of whom more than half are considered youths.

A meta analysis finds that regular exercise reduces risk of Covid infection by 11 percent. Those who exercised also had less severe disease and lower mortality.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) spokesperson Tawee­silp Visanuyothin said last week that the government will declare Covid-19 as endemic in October. The decision to label the infectious disease as endemic was based on the relatively limited number of severe cases and fatalities.