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The World Health Organization expects initial results within two weeks from clinical trials it is conducting of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday.…

Nations who fail to use every mechanism available to combat the still-raging novel coronavirus will struggle to beat it, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. “Some countries ... have taken a fragmented approach. These…

France and Germany expressed their backing for the World Health Organization in fighting the coronavirus on Thursday, with Germany saying it will contribute some half billion euros in funding for the U.N. agency this year. WHO chief…

On Monday, the World Health Organization’s director general said that the global coronavirus pandemic has been exacerbated by polititicisation. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a virtual health forum organised by the World…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of them in the Americas. “The world is in a new and dangerous phase,”…

An inexpensive steroid that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID-19 should be reserved for serious cases in which it has been shown to provide benefits, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO Director…

The World Health Organization said on Thursday, that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, spreading to the hinterland from capital cities where it arrived with travellers. Ten countries are driving Africa’s epidemic,…

The Kremlin denied on Thursday there was anything untoward with Russia’s official coronavirus death data after the World Health Organisation said this week that Russia’s low death rate was “difficult to understand”. Asked if the Kremlin…

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that the new coronavirus cases had their biggest daily increase ever as the pandemic worsens globally and has yet to peak in central America. “More than six months into the pandemic,…

Some countries have seen “upticks” in COVID-19 cases as lockdowns ease, and populations must protect themselves from the coronavirus while authorities continue testing, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The epicentre of…