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A woman in Gujarat, India, is educated on the benefits of handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 pandemic ‘not even close to being over’, WHO chief warns

29 June 2020
Health

Nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday.

A women wearing a face mask.
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UN health agency to gauge global threat, as China confirms coronavirus transmission between humans

21 January 2020
Health

Following an announcement by China’s national health body that a new virus first identified there, can be transmitted from person to person, the World Health Organization (WHO) is to hold a meeting on Wednesday to decide if it should be declared a global health emergency.

A health worker administers a vaccination against cholera on a young boy in Yemen.
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‘No shortcuts to a healthier world’: WHO chief sets out health priorities for the decade

13 January 2020
Health

The head of the UN health agency, WHO, has set out his urgent global health challenges for the next ten years – designated the “Decade of Action” by the UN General Assembly” – and underscored the importance of investing in public health, in a statement released on Monday.

The MERS coronavirus, digitally imaged.
US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

UN health agency urges China to continue search for source of new virus, as Thailand case emerges

13 January 2020
Health

It is “essential” for China to continue investigating the source of a previously unknown strain of coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Monday, following confirmation that an infected patient is being treated in Thailand.