| Country | Cases | New Cases | Total Deaths | Today's Deaths | Recovered | Active | Critical | Cases/ 1M people | Deaths/ 1M people |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 13236265 | +6570 | 575543 | +562 | 7696551 | 4964171 | 58881 | 73.8 | 1698 |
WHO today accepted the recommendation from the Solidarity Trial’s International Steering Committee to discontinue the trial’s hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir... more
Jul , 13, 2020 7:49 PM
Seventy-three countries have warned that they are at risk of stock-outs of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new WHO survey conducted ahead of the…... more
Jul , 13, 2020 7:17 PM
Rome – More pe... more
Jul , 13, 2020 2:00 PM
Good-quality medicines, given at the right time, can save the lives of pregnant and recently pregnant women and their newborn babies. New evidence synthesis reveals however, that in... more
Jul , 10, 2020 6:03 PM
GENEVA — A new Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco aims to help the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users quit. Stopping smoking is more important than ever as evidence reveals that smokers ar... more
Jul , 10, 2020 2:40 PM
India is among the countries most dramatically affected by snakebite and accounts for almost half the total number of annual deaths in the world. Authors of the article entitled &l... more
Jul , 10, 2020 10:40 AM
Today, more than 20 leading biopharmaceutical companies are announcing the launch of the AMR Action Fund that will invest in developing innovative antibac... more
Jul , 09, 2020 3:49 PM
WHO Director-General today announced the initiation of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.In…... more
Jul , 09, 2020 1:40 PM
Honouring the public servants who have been working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.... more
Jul , 08, 2020 4:19 AM
WHO experts will travel to China to work together with their Chinese counterparts to prepare scientific plans for identifying the zoonotic source of the SARS-COV-2 virus. The experts will deve... more
Jul , 07, 2020 6:56 PM
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic started taking the world by storm, The World Health Organization (WHO) and The Pew Charitable…... more
Jul , 07, 2020 3:18 PM
The recent COVID-19 pandemic and resulting breakdown of community-based services for people with dementia and their caregivers emphasized the importance of providing caregivers with accessible publ... more
Jul , 06, 2020 1:48 PM
An introductory meeting of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis (STAG-TB) was held on 24-25 June 2020. STAG-TB, which is comprised of 15 eminent experts from min... more
Jul , 01, 2020 3:21 PM
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Jul , 01, 2020 1:26 PM
Today marks the end of the 10th outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This long, complex and difficult outbreak has been overcome due to the leadership and…... more
Jun , 30, 2020 1:24 PM
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to expand access to rapid molecular tests for the detection of TB and drug-resistant TB in updated consolidated guidelines, released today. T... more
Jun , 30, 2020 1:05 PM
On June 25, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Dr Hand Kluge, Regional Director of WHO Europe, spoke at the European Parliament Committee for Environment, Public Health an... more
Jun , 30, 2020 7:44 AM
Germany and France have reconfirmed their political, financial and technical support to WHO. His Excellency Olivier Véran, Minister for Solidarity and Health of the Republic of France, and H... more
Jun , 30, 2020 7:29 AM
WHO provides this timeline of the organization’s COVID-19 response activities for general information. WHO will update the timeline on a regular basis and in light of evolving events and new informa... more
Jun , 29, 2020 2:24 PM
The 2020 “Triad Statement” was issued at the close of the 8th biennial meeting of the WHO, the International Confederation of Midwives, and the International Council of N... more
Jun , 29, 2020 12:34 PM
Emergency Committee for Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu) on 26 June 2020 The 8th meeting of the... more
Jun , 26, 2020 4:57 PM
The tools developed will benefit the whole world, and by saving lives and reducing severe COVID-19 disease, contribute to the goal of protecting health systems and restoring full societal and…... more
Jun , 26, 2020 11:55 AM
Countries endemic for human African trypanosomiasis, HAT (also known as sleeping sickness) continue to report fewer cases, indicating that the disease is well on course for elimination as a public hea... more
Jun , 25, 2020 10:32 AM
The International Olympic Committee and WHO together with the United Nations launch a partnership to encourage individuals and communities around the world to be #HEALTHYTogether. The three partners a... more
Jun , 23, 2020 1:27 PM