Health

Is there a chance of another COVID-19 like pandemic to take place in next 10 years: Check out what risk modelling shows

Airfinity’s new risk modelling, that is being presented at the Rhodes Summit in London Friday the 14th, indicates there’s a 27.5 pct chance that a pandemic as deadly as COVID-19 could take place in the next ten years. more

Billions more needed for UN-backed global collaboration to end pandemic

New York: A new strategy announced on Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for $23.4 billion to combat inequities in accessing COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments, as ...

COVID-19: Global vaccine plan aims to end ‘two-track pandemic’

New York: The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday unveiled an $8 billion pathway out of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a bid to make vaccines accessible to everyone, everywhere.

90 percent of countries’ health services continue to be disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic: WHO

New York: Over one year into the COVID-19 pandemic and 90% of countries are still reporting one or more disruptions to essential health services. The findings of the second World Health O ...

To end the pandemic, WHO says $28 billion ACT project is ‘the best deal in town’

New York: An international coalition aiming to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic needs $28 billion, a bargain price for stopping the damage done by a virus that has run rampant for the past ye ...

Russia registers world's 'first' COVID-19 vaccine: Report

Moscow: Russia has become the first country in the world to register a vaccine against COVID-19, President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday during a government meeting, Russian news ag ...

Global partners require $31 billion to speed up COVID-19 medicines for all

New York : More than $31 billion is needed over the next 12 months to develop medicines that will be effective against COVID-19, and make them available to all people, the World Health Or ...