| Country | Cases | New Cases | Total Deaths | Today's Deaths | Recovered | Active | Critical | Cases/ 1M people | Deaths/ 1M people |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 352126907 | +149023 | 5614788 | +232 | 279808923 | 66703196 | 95720 | 720.3 | 45175 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty, COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the first to receive emergency validation from WHO since the... more
Dec , 31, 2020 7:35 PM
In his end of year message for 2020, WHO Director-General says there is light at the end of the tunnel in the fight against COVID-19. But going into 2021, he urges countries and communities to work to... more
Dec , 30, 2020 2:20 PM
Since the global youth movement, 1+1 youth Initiative was launched on World TB Day 2019, fol... more
Dec , 23, 2020 3:20 PM
The Behavioural Insights Unit of the WHO released a meeting report of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on the special…... more
Dec , 21, 2020 6:34 PM
Global partners that are committed to ending paediatric AIDS have come together to call on countries to rapidly scale up access to optimal, child-friendly HIV treatment for infants and children.... more
Dec , 21, 2020 6:16 PM
To mark the end of the…... more
Dec , 19, 2020 10:49 AM
COVAX now has agreements in place to access nearly two billion doses of several promising vaccine candidates, and laid the groundwork for further doses to be secured through contributi... more
Dec , 18, 2020 1:43 PM
National bans on highly hazardous pesticides can be a cost-effective and affordable intervention for reducing suicide deaths in countries with a high burden of suicides attributable to pesticides, acc... more
Dec , 18, 2020 4:51 AM
The World Health Organization and YouTube have partnered on an inviting and humorous public service announcement&... more
Dec , 17, 2020 4:04 PM
Healthcare workers in tropical and sub-tropical settings where strongyloidiasis is prevalent or caring for patients who have travelled to such areas, need to maintain a high level of awareness about t... more
Dec , 17, 2020 11:28 AM
The Operational Tool on Joint Risk Assessment (JRA OT) has been developed by the Tripartite organisations (FAO, OIE and WHO) and technical experts to provide guidance on how to set up a joint risk ass... more
Dec , 17, 2020 9:07 AM
Despite the successful use of the JRA OT in country pilots, the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated the ability to provide facilitation support for in-country engagement. But ironically, the zoonotic na... more
Dec , 17, 2020 9:00 AM
17 December 2020 – At least 14% of all people aged 60 years and over ̶- more than 142 million people ̶- are currently unable to meet all their basic daily needs acco... more
Dec , 17, 2020 8:41 AM
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Dec , 16, 2020 8:43 AM
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Sanofi – one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies – have signed a new agreement for donations of medicines to sustain specific efforts to elimi... more
Dec , 15, 2020 2:02 PM
Purpose of this notice: To ensure users of certain nucleic acid testing (NAT) technologies are aware of certain aspects of the instructions for use (IFU) for all products. Description of the problem:…... more
Dec , 14, 2020 6:04 PM
The United Nations General Assembly today declared 2021-2030 the Decade of Healthy Ageing. The UN Resolution, which follows recent endorsement of the Decade by the World Health Assembly, expresses con... more
Dec , 14, 2020 4:43 PM
WHO and HRP launch the Labour Care Guide to im... more
Dec , 14, 2020 2:54 PM
Funding for community programmes, engaging youth in solutions to address COVID-19, and convening Global Youth Summit are key features of this new mobilizationA new ground-brea... more
Dec , 14, 2020 1:51 PM
One of WHO’s 3 strategic goals is to ensure that an additional 1 billion people in the world are protected by universal health coverage (UHC) by 2023 – able to access the services they…... more
Dec , 14, 2020 9:27 AM
Lack of water puts health care workers and patients at higher risk of COVID-19 infectionAround 1.8 billion people are at heightened risk of COVID-19…... more
Dec , 11, 2020 2:22 PM
Please join us by signing the Call for Action—a global movement to promote access to health information and to mitigate harm from health misinformation among online and offline commun... more
Dec , 11, 2020 12:05 AM
Revised background documents for asbestos and manganese are available for public review.... more
Dec , 10, 2020 9:08 AM
In June 2019, WHO announced the revision of two pain management guidelines. A full web statement on this revision can be found ... more
Aug , 21, 2020 9:26 AM
As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to ensure that essential health... more
Apr , 07, 2020 11:53 AM