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The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the coronavirus pandemic will “go on for a year longer than it needs to” because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be "our last chance" to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and urged China to provide data from early cases.

The policy-making body of the World Health Organization has recommended that a third dose of the Sinovac and Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines should be offered to persons aged 60 and above and those whose immune systems are diminished.

The United States will accept the use by international visitors of COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S. regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late on Friday.

World Health Organization (WHO) as well as six drug companies to become a global hub for manufacturing vaccines, its health minister told Reuters.

Authorities in India are racing to contain an outbreak of the Nipah virus after a young boy was killed by the brain-swelling condition.

Findings of the WHO-led joint study report should not be brushed under the carpet

Cuba on Monday became the first country in the world to vaccinate children from the age of two against Covid-19, using home-grown jabs not recognized by the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as "Mu", which was first identified in Colombia in January.

Sri Lanka’s Covid Test Positivity Rate (TPR) remains at 15.8 percent, according to the weekly situation report put out by the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 20.