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WHO Calls For Sustained Efforts To Control Covid Transmission
The Covid pandemic has not settled down into a predictable pattern, as the situation of transmission and cases in different countries varies a lot, said an expert from World Health Organization (WHO), noting there's no one-size-fits-all solution globally. ....
Online Covid Calculator Will Tell Who Must Get Vaccines First
Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new online calculator for estimating the individual and community-level risk of dying from Covid-19. ....
China Ready To Further Cooperate With WHO Over COVID-19 Origin Tracing
China is ready to continue to strengthen cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) to advance the global origin-tracing of the novel coronavirus, which was first reported in Wuhan city in December 2019, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said.....
COVID: Concerns Grow Over Global Disparities In Vaccination
As an increasing number of countries started mass vaccination, gaps in access to Covid-19 vaccines, especially huge disparities between the developed world and developing world, have become glaringly evident. ....
WHO Experts Complete Quarantine Period In China: Spokesperson
An international expert team of the World Health Organization (WHO) will complete their 14-day quarantine, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson. ....
Covid Vaccines May Exacerbate Inequalities In Distribution: WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has said that vaccines are now giving a window of opportunity to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control, but they may also exacerbate the inequalities in distribution across the globe.....
'Jallikattu' Out Of Oscar Race, Shortlists In 9 Categories Announced
The critically acclaimed Malayalam film Jallikattu, which was the official Indian entry in the Best International Feature Film category this year, failed to make it to the shortlist for the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards. ....
China Hid Wuhan Coronavirus Information From WHO Expert Team: Report
China's behaviour with the expert team constituted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate the coronavirus (Covid-19) has led to more speculation about the virus that traces its origins to Wuhan in central China. Various news reports have made it clear that the WHO team worked under limitations and did not have access to all information it sought on the initial days of the outbreak. ....
'Extremely Unlikely' Covid-19 Escaped From Wuhan Lab: WHO Mission Member
It is "extremely unlikely" that SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, escaped from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan, a member of a World Health Organization (WHO) expert team sent to China on a Covid-19 origin-tracing mission said. ....
Healthy Plant-based Diet Linked To Lower Stroke Risk
Consuming higher amounts of healthy plant-based foods and lower amounts of less healthy plant-based foods may reduce the risk of stroke, according to a new study. ....
