Coronavirus global health emergency: Coverage from UN News
The outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019

This page brings together information and guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations regarding the current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was first reported in Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019. Please visit this page for daily updates. WHO is working closely with global experts, governments and partners to rapidly expand scientific knowledge on this new virus, to track the spread and virulence of the virus, and to provide advice to countries and individuals on measures to protect health and prevent the spread of this outbreak.
A man's temperature is taken in Mali to check against a possible COVID-19 infection.
MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko

COVID death toll passes 4 million: Global Vaccine Plan essential, declares Guterres

7 July 2021
Health

The global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late on Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need for the world to put a Global Vaccine Plan in place to get the pandemic under control, said the UN chief in a statement.

A man waits to be tested for Covid outside a hospital in Mumbai, India.
© UNICEF/Murgesh Bandiwadekar

COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’ warns WHO chief

7 July 2021
Health

Variants like Delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines” said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, pinning the blame squarely on a lack of equitable vaccine production and distribution.

Bangladesh receives its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility on 31 May 2021.
© UNICEF/Bashir Ahmed Sujan

News in Brief 7 July 2021

7 July 2021
News in Brief
  • COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’: WHO chief
  • UN Myanmar expert calls for ‘emergency coalition’ to end junta rights abuses
  • Pathway to jobs in education for refugee graduates: UNHCR
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