COVAX

Staff unload the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by COVAX at Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana's capital.
© UNICEF/Francis Kokoroko/COVAX

News in Brief 24 February 2021

24 February 2021
News in Brief
  • Historic first as COVAX COVID vaccines reach Ghana
  • WHO announces COVID deaths drop 20% in a week worldwide 
  • Get with new tech, or risk falling further behind: UNCTAD
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A mother and a doctor tend a girl with COVID-19 at an intensive care ward, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
© UNICEF/Evgeniy Maloletka

‘Constellation’ of post-COVID symptoms will impact global healthcare, says WHO 

12 February 2021
Health

Far more research is needed into the “constellation” of sometimes debilitating symptoms among people who’ve recovered from COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, adding that it “will impact” global health systems.