The World Health Organization has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. Hydroxychloroquine has been touted...
MANILA, Philippines — Upon the recommendation of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) has approved the proposed...
The World Health Organization expressed concern on Wednesday (May 20) for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in poor countries, even as many rich nations emerge from lockdown. The...
The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday (May 18) that an independent evaluation of the global coronavirus response would be launched as soon as possible, and China...
Officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that it is hard to predict when the pandemic will be over, but the novel coronvirus may never go away....
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned against the use of herd immunity to combat COVID-19, calling it a dangerous concept in the absence of an effective vaccine and...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday (May 11) that “extreme vigilance” was needed as countries begin to exit from lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the new...
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday (May 5) a report that COVID-19 had emerged in December in France, sooner than previously thought, was “not surprising,” and urged countries to...
The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday warned that the COVID-19 is far from over. “As lockdowns in Europe ease with declining numbers of...
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday warned there is a long road to go and COVID-19 will be with us for a long time. Although some...
