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At least one novel pathogen emerges every year, with each one of those having the potential to morph into another worldwide pandemic and therefore, there is a need for a coordinated global response to tackle pandemics, health leaders said here on Wednesday. Speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 here, they noted that the official count of COVID-19 deaths is more than 6 million, but the tail end of the pandemic is still raging in some parts of the world. Improved global coordination and regional capacity building will help ensure the world is better prepared for the next pandemic, leading health experts said. "We must not lose this moment of potential transformative change in building preparedness," said Helen E Clark, Board Chair, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, World Health Organization (WHO). "Unfortunately, political resolve to solve COVID is beginning to fade." Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, pointed out that the COVID-19 pandemic is still

Two linked cases of the new Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in Britain connected to travel to southern Africa, health minister Sajid Javid said on Saturday

The scientists said more work is needed to reach any conclusions but their study found little evidence that another drug, brincidofovir, was beneficial

'Let's not make a mountain out of a molehill,' says WHO official; France, Denmark latest to consider target vaccinations

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency's member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday.

The number of coronavirus deaths globally dropped by about 21per cent in the past week while cases rose in most parts of the world, according to the World Health Organization. In its weekly report on the pandemic released Thursday, the U.N. health agency said the number of new COVID-19 cases appears to have stabilized after weeks of decline since late March, with about 3.5 million new cases last week, or a 1per cent rise. WHO said cases increased in the Americas, Middle East, Africa and the Western Pacific, while falling in Europe and Southeast Asia. Some 9,000 deaths were recorded. Infections rose by more than 60per cent in the Middle East and 26per cent in the Americas, while deaths fell everywhere except Africa, where they jumped by nearly 50per cent. The COVID-19 figures reported to WHO do not include the recent outbreak figures announced by North Korea, which has yet to officially share requested data with the agency. On Thursday, the authoritarian country headed by Kim Jung U

Speaking after Tedros, WHO emergencies director Mike Ryan said the impact of a 'zero-Covid' policy on human rights also needs to be taken into consideration

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It is perfectly fair to dispute the exact methodology used by the WHO's research team

The Modi-led government has refuted the WHO claims, raising objection to the process and methodology

India's official Covid death toll is 481,486 between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021

The official count of deaths directly attributable to COVID-19 and reported to WHO in that period, from January 2020 to the end of December 2021, is slightly more than 5.4 million

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years

Health officials around the world are investigating a mysterious increase in cases of the liver condition which was first spotted in the UK

India must address quackery in alternative medicine

PM Modi today laid the foundation stone of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, Gujarat

Regional Director Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh said, 'traditional medicines have been around for millennia and pointed out that nearly 80 per cent of people, in 170 of 194 WHO member countries use them'

While there have been a few cases of new Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, so far there is no change seen in the severity or transmissibility, the World Health Organisation has said.