The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that COVID-19 remains a global emergency, nearly 2-1/2 years after it was first declared. The Emergency Committee, made up of independent experts, said in ...

The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest reported in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a ...

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable ...

(NEXSTAR) – On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization told the world that COVID-19 “can be characterized as a pandemic.” At the time, fewer than 4,500 people were ...

GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered ...

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GENEVA -- The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a news briefing in Geneva ...

June 16 (UPI) --The World Health Organization said Wednesday that after five weeks of decline, the number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide has risen by 4%. WHO said that more than 8,700 COVID-19 deaths ...

The World Health Organization today ended its designation of Covid as a “global health emergency.” WHO director general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement, tweeted out by WHO, that it ...