Tag: The World Health Organization

WHO Outlines Strategy to End Global COVID-19 Emergency in 2022

The World Health Organization on Wednesday unveiled an updated plan for COVID-19 that, if implemented “rapidly and consistently” this year, will allow the world to end the emergency phase of the pandemic. The plan—the WHO’s third on COVID-19—includes three potential scenarios for how the virus might evolve in the next 12 months: a base case,…


WHO Says It ‘Strongly Supports’ COVID Boosters in Reversal of Previous Stance

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that it “strongly supports” the administration of COVID-19 booster doses, reversing its previous stance that boosters were not necessary for healthy people who are fully vaccinated. WHO said in its updated vaccine advisory that “current COVID-19 vaccines for primary series and booster doses” provide high levels of protection…


World’s Vaccine Stocks May Expire as Supply Higher Than Demand

COVID-19 vaccine stocks may go out of date as demand has dipped below supply, according to the globe’s largest manufacturer of jabs. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday said the world had stockpiled more COVID-19 jabs than it can use as some of the developing countries are not placing…


World’s Vaccine Stocks May Expire as Supply Surpasses Demand

COVID-19 vaccine stocks may go out of date as demand has dipped below supply, according to the globe’s largest manufacturer of jabs. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday said the world had stockpiled more COVID-19 jabs than it can use as some of the developing countries are not placing…


WHO Recommends People Aged 60 and Above to Postpone Travel Due to Omicron Variant Concerns

The World Health Organization is recommending people 60 and older to postpone their travel plans over Omicron variant concerns. The WHO, which named Omicron as a variant of concern (VOC) on Nov. 26, says it is monitoring the spread of the variant, and advised certain travelers to delay their trips to “areas with community transmission.”…


World Bank China Rigging Scandal Highlights Beijing’s ‘Malign Influence’ at UN: Experts

Revelations that World Bank leaders pressured staff to rig an influential report to favor China have once again cast a spotlight on Beijing’s influence within the United Nations system. A recent investigation found that then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and then-Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva had applied “undue pressure” on staff to boost China’s ranking…


WHO Urges Countries To Hold Off Giving COVID-19 Booster Shots Through September

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to hold off on giving COVID-19 booster shots through September so that poorer nations can provide citizens with their first dose of the vaccine. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that some low-income countries, including many in Africa, have less than two percent of their adult populations fully vaccinated….


Make Red China Pay

Commentary What is the true impact of COVID-19 on the American economy, population, and psyche? Will we ever be able to assess the total damage done to people’s lives and the lives of their progeny? What about the political destruction being wrought on the American constitutional republic by fascist politicians arbitrarily seeking to impose their…


WHO to Set up New Group to Trace Virus Origins

GENEVA—The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday it was setting up a new group to trace the origins of the coronavirus, seeking to end what it called “political point scoring” that had hampered investigations. The inability of the WHO to say where and how the virus began spreading has fueled tensions among its members,…


WHO Urges China to Share Raw Data on Early COVID-19 Cases, Says It’s ‘Vitally Important’ to Prevent Future Pandemics

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Aug. 12 urged China to share raw data from the earliest COVID-19 cases, saying it is “vitally important to know how the COVID-19 pandemic began” and to set an example for establishing the origins of all future animal-human spillover events. In a statement on Thursday, the WHO repeatedly stressed the importance of…