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The risk level related to the Omicron variant remains very high, the WHO said late Tuesday, with the numbers of new Covid-19 cases hitting another record high last week. "Over 21 million new cases were reported, representing the highest number of weekly cases recorded since the beginning of the pandemic,"…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said fundamental and life-saving primary health care services in Afghanistan are under severe threat due to a lack of external funding since the change of regime in August 2021.

Despite ‘more transmissible’ strain, scientists do not appear concerned it will trigger another wave

U.S. financial contributions to the World Health Organization (WHO) have fallen by 25% during the coronavirus pandemic, provisional data show, with Washington's future support to the United Nations agency under review.

The first known version of Omicron is B.1.1.529, before BA.1 spread to 171 countries and now BA.2 and BA.3 have been registered as new sub-variants in the Omicron family

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has laid out more plans to fight the virus and other priorities as he pitched his case for a new five-year term

The WHO has called on all countries to get at least 70 per cent of their respective populations vaccinated in a bid to try and achieve this aim

Omicron and Delta most pernicious but not the only coronavirus offspring under observation

An Ethiopian ambassador slammed the World Health Organization's chief over his comments on the Tigray conflict, during the WHO's executive board meeting in Geneva.

It’s a grim anniversary today as we mark two years since Australia recorded its first case of the novel coronavirus, two million cases later.

As the government scraps the majority of the remaining Covid restrictions this week, the WHO has rejected claims the pandemic is over