Taiwan is excluded from WHO general assembly meeting
Taiwan has been campaigning to be able to attend the annual WHO assembly as an observer for several years.
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What’s the lambda variant and what does it mean for us?
Most of the time these mutations don’t do anything special. In fact, there are more than a dozen COVID-19 variants that the WHO is watching right now, including eta, iota and kappa. So far, none have proved to be any more of a threat than the original variant.
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WHO to review evidence of airborne COVID-19 transmission
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) publicly acknowledged evidence that suggests the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) can spread through airborne transmission.
This comes after the agency received an open letter from 239 health experts urging the group to review its guidelines.
“We have been talking about the possibility of airborne transmission
China and US tensions aired while Trump takes drug against COVID-19
During a video conference of the World Health Assembly, an annual decision-making meeting of the World Health Organization, tensions between the United States and China took center stage, with the US lashing out at both China and the global health agency for their handling of the outbreak.
Alex Azar, US
Trump considers restoring WHO funding
On Saturday, United States President Donald Trump announced that his administration was considering numerous proposals about restoring funding for the World Health Organization. Trump has also specified that no final decision had been made and that US funding for the agency remained frozen.
Trump halted funding for the WHO on
“This virus may never go away," says WHO while Hong Kong records three new COVID-19 cases
On Wednesday during an online briefing, the World Health Organization warned against predictions on when the pandemic would end saying that COVID-19 could potentially become an endemic virus.
“It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this
Trump freezes WHO funding after shifting blame for US coronavirus deaths
On Tuesday, April 14, United States President Donald Trump announced that his administration would freeze funding to the World Health Organization for 60-90 days after launching an official investigation into the organization.
On April 8, Trump claimed that the international institution did not adequately send reports on the virus to