World Health Organization Archives

Unending Woes : Death Toll In Deadly Earthquakes Hit Nations Turkey- Syria Rises Every Day ; Crosses 21,000 As Per latest Reports

The death toll in the deadly Turkey-Syria earthquakes has climbed to at least 21,051 CNN reported citing authorities. At least 17,674 people...

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World Watch

Taking On The Dragon : WHO Slams China For Underreporting COVID Deaths ; Seeks Regular, Rapid And Reliable Data

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the organization’s data on the number of deaths from COVID-19 worldwide...

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National

Worrying Surge : India Records 781 Omicron Variant Cases; Delhi , Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Telangana Are Top Five States

India has recorded 781 cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus across 21 states and UTs so far out of which 241...

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World Watch

Mediterranean Region Now Vulnerable To Coronavirus Pandemic, Warns WHO

Coronavirus infections have been on the rise in the 22 countries of the eastern Mediterranean region after two months of steady decline...

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World Watch

WHO Chief Sounds Alarm, Warns World Against The Danger Posed By Delta Variant

The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuing...

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Environment

COVID-19 And Wildlife Conservation Challenges : Some Thoughts – Part 1

The recent emergence of Covid-19 represents a public health emergency of unprecedented enormity. A pneumonia of unknown cause detected in China was...

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World Watch

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Fears Loss Of Million Lives If Coronavirus Is Allowed To Spread Unchecked

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that millions of people could die from the new coronavirus, particularly in poor countries, if it...

The vast majority of the hungry are still in Asia [image from: SOFI 2019 report]

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Impact

As Global Hunger Grows, Easy Solutions Disappear

Last week, alongside the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) which monitors the progress on the global Sustainable Development Goals, UN agencies released the...