"I have one simple request for all Member States, and that is: end this pandemic," Dr. Ghebreyesus said in closing remarks at the Special Session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. "How many more lives and livelihoods it takes is up to us. Ending the pandemic is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice."
The WHO chief called on all Member States to "take rational, proportional risk-reduction measures, in keeping with the International Health Regulations."
"What’s the President's response to Andy Slavitt -- who, of course, was a COVID advisor here in the White House just a few months ago -- saying that it would be better to provide mass shipments of the vaccine -- hundreds of millions of vaccines -- to Southern Africa rather than having travel bans?" asked Yamiche Léone Alcindor, who is the host of Washington Week, White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.
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Read More »"The President has been briefed on the latest on Omicron. At the same time, senior health officials and the COVID response team have been monitoring the latest updates on Omicron and in regular touch with health officials around the world," the White House said in a brief statement.
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During the month of November, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is commemorating a major milestone, marking 60 years since its…
Read More »"This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant," said the Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE), an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behavior of the virus.
Virgil Abloh, a renowned American fashion designer who was born to Ghanaian immigrant parents in Rockford, Illinois, died on Sunday at the…
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The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday completed the third review under the Extended Credit Facility…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered a clear message to world leaders on Wednesday, asserting that ending COVID-19 pandemic is "not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of…
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message, asserting that"promoting and protecting the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons is a foreign policy priority of this administration."
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The European Union, the United Kingdom and Israel are among the nations halting flight to southern Africa over the new…
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