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Investigations are under way into an outbreak of acute hepatitis cases in children reported to the World Health Organization

The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to maintain surveillance of coronavirus infections, saying the world was "blind" to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates. "As many countries reduce testing, WHO is receiving less and less information about transmission and sequencing," Director-General…

Most of the hepatitis cases in children have been found in the UK.

With over two-thirds of the African continent still unvaccinated against Covid-19, it is clear that the global pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) regime remains seriously underfunded and lacking in resilient, effective delivery systems. While the World Health Organization's Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) has helped to address the gross…

Public Health Scotland (PHS) chiefs were also made aware of the cases of hepatitis – an inflammation of the liver – identified in children aged between one and five years old who have been admitted to hospital across the central belt

The World Health Organization said Friday it "strongly recommended" Pfizer's Covid-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid for patients with milder forms of the disease who were still at a high risk of hospitalization. However the UN agency warned it was "extremely concerned" that the inequality in access seen with Covid vaccines would…

Bibi Asiyeh, 18, has reportedly been kept in a cage for years by her father in Kandahar.

The World Health Organization says that the number of reported new COVID-19 cases worldwide decreased by nearly a quarter last week

While COVID-19 deaths and infections in the Americas region over the past week are at the lowest levels since the pandemic began two years ago, the World Health Organization’s regional arm warned Wednesday that countries should not think the pandemic is over.