Tag: WHO

March 21 (TheStraitsTime) - The coronavirus is now infecting people at a faster pace: It took three months for the first 100,000 cases, but only 12 days for the next 100,000 on Wednesday, said the World Health Organisation. By yesterday, the global tally had gone up by more than 50,000 to surpass 250,000 cases. If the coronavirus is allowed to ...

London/Rome, March 11 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said for the first time on Wednesday that it now sees the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. “We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday. “We have therefore ...

Geneva, Feb 19 (AP) - Despite a virus outbreak spreading from China, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday it's much too soon to say whether the Tokyo Olympics are at risk of being cancelled or moved. Tokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee have repeatedly said they have no contingency plans for the July 24-Aug. 9 Summer Games ...

Feb 12 (Al Jazeera) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that "COVID-19" will now be the official name of the deadly virus from China, saying the disease represented a "very grave threat" for the world but there was a "realistic chance" of stopping it. "We now have a name for the disease and it's 'COVID-19'," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

Singapore, Feb 6th (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun an investigation into three virus infections linked to an international business meeting in Singapore last month, heightening concerns about the spread of the disease outside China. The cases linked to the meeting provide more evidence that the coronavirus is spreading through human-to-human contact outside China, which the WHO ...