World Health Organization-backed scientists are reportedly working alongside the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on a plan to issue bulk vaccinations to thousands of elite athletes and sports administrators to ensure the postponed Tokyo Olympics go ahead.
The W.H.O., on Inauguration Day, released new coronavirus testing guidelines that may result in fewer reported infections.
“I am honored to announce that the United States will remain a member of the World Health Organization,” Fauci said during remarks at a World Health Organization Executive Board meeting.
A host of U.N. agencies lined up Thursday to applaud Joe Biden’s ascension to the White House, scarcely suppressing their glee that U.S. taxpayer dollars will once more be flowing their way.
The oldest president to take the oath, Joe Biden plans a frantic first day in power once his ceremonial swearing in is completed Wednesday. Some 17 executive actions and orders are ready for his initial hours in the Oval Office, designed to tackle everything from climate change to global poverty, all while he cancels the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
China has shut down at least 11 regions as of Monday and is facing major coronavirus outbreaks throughout the country, two weeks after the nation hosted a New Year’s Eve party for a crowd of thousands in Wuhan.
China and the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) were slow and ineffective in their response to the first stages of the coronavirus outbreak, an damning interim report released Tuesday concludes.
As a new coronavirus outbreak in China rapidly spirals from a handful of asymptomatic cases in one city district to a regional crisis, the governor of Hebei province accused a medical agency of falsifying test results and demanded a re-screening.
The world must share coronavirus vaccines more equally rather than risk taking the planet to the “brink of a catastrophic moral failure” through abhorrent “vaccine nationalism,” the chief of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) lamented Monday.
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration has a distinctly Obama-esque feel to it, with ex-career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration named on Saturday to bulk up his State Department team.
President-elect Joe Biden is readying a blitz of executive orders and legislation during his first 10 days in the White House.
The highly politicized Lancet medical journal lauds the upcoming Biden inauguration as a chance for the “restoration of the global standing of the USA.”
Two important cases illustrate the black-box opaqueness of the People’s Republic of China: the disappearance of billionaire Jack Ma and the origin of Covid-19.
Chinese officials on Thursday blocked two members of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) team investigating the origins of the Chinese coronavirus from entering China.
Sexual predators working for international aid agencies in disaster zones are still abusing vulnerable women and girls, a report by British MPs has revealed.
Twelve months ago today the World Health Organisation (WHO) reassured the world on the then-new coronavirus outbreak.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday he was “very disappointed” in China’s refusal to grant access for a ten-member team of experts to investigate the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, even though China previously agreed to the mission and several of the members are already in transit.
A “top level” mission to China to determine the exact origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ended before it began, with the head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) complaining Beijing is refusing entry to investigators.
The once prestigious Lancet medical journal has called on the Biden administration to significantly increase U.S. funding of the United Nations and the World Health Organization to reestablish American global health leadership after four years of “disruption” by Donald Trump.
Local Communist Party officials in Wuhan, China, the origin city of the Chinese coronavirus, ordered the city’s 11 million residents to stockpile masks, first aid kits, and other emergency supplies, the propaganda outlet Global Times revealed on Sunday.
Israel has administered more vaccines to its population — more than one in nine Israelis have received the first dose — than any other country in the world by a large margin, and here’s why.
The 11 million-strong residents of Wuhan, source of the global coronavirus pandemic, want everyone to know it is now China’s party central and the Western world “should get used to it.”
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and its workers were warmly applauded by chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a video message Thursday, with the career Ethiopian bureaucrat specifically offering “holiday” rather than “Christmas” season greetings throughout.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has told Europeans they should wear masks when meeting friends and family over the Christmas period, after previously recommending having a picnic in the park on December 25th to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) confirmed on Wednesday that it would send a team to Wuhan, China, in January to investigate the origins of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – eight months after the Communist Party of China admitted it had destroyed all the evidence it had collected there.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that leaked documents from the World Health Organization (WHO) predict a “very high” risk of failure for the organization’s plan to establish a coronavirus vaccination plan for poor countries. The documents warned that much of the world’s impoverished population might not receive vaccinations until 2024.
The head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faces a call for prosecution over his alleged involvement in directing security forces in his Ethiopian homeland.
Eurocrats met in Brussels to discuss strategies for working closer with Biden, on issues such as the green agenda and the Chinese coronavirus.
The chief of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is willing to publicly receive a coronavirus vaccination, joining former U.S. Presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a display of trust in the process.
Reports began to surface this week of potential cabinet appointments and priority government projects for Democrat Party presidential challenger Joe Biden should he take office in January.
