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The World Health Organization launched a global network to help swiftly detect the threat from infectious diseases, like COVID-19, and share the information to prevent their spread. The International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) will provide a platform for connecting countries and regions, improving systems for collecting and analyzing samples, the...

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, however, warns that "the worst thing any country could do now is to use this news as a reason to let down its guard, to dismantle the systems it has built, or to send the message to its people that Covid-19 is nothing to worry...

Earlier it was a leader in the UK domestic flights sector.

In terms of monitoring how the virus is evolving, surveillance and genetic sequencing has dropped sharply, making it harder to track the myriad variants and detect new ones in good time.

Urging China to share information that might pinpoint how the pandemic started, the WHO has said that it was hoping that Covid-19 would no longer be a public health emergency in 2023. The WHO said the virus was here to stay and would have to be managed like other respiratory...

World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it is working closely with 'partners' to  better understand the extent and cause of an outbreak of monkeypox.

Morocco reopened its airspace on Monday in a bid to breathe life into its crisis-hit tourism sector, two months after it cancelled commercial flights over coronavirus fears. The North African kingdom's latest move was welcomed by tourism businesses who have suffered two lost years due to the pandemic, as well...

The countries need to work harder to ensure equitable access to vaccines and treatment, track the virus and its emerging variants, and keep restrictions in place, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the UN health agency's executive board.

Omicron transmitted very efficiently between people due to a number of reason including make-up of the Covid-19 variant and increased social mixing and not adhering to measures such as physical distancing.

More than 40,000 cranes are estimated to have remained in the area of northern Israel as 2000 have been dead in the Bird flu outbreak.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday announced the emergency use approval of Turkey's first domestically-developed coronavirus vaccine. In June, Turkovac entered Phase III trials involving 40,800 participants in Turkey. No official data about its efficacy have been released. But the health ministry's coronavirus advisory board member Ates Kara told Turkish...

The backing material of the device is made of suitable flexible plastics or polymer material, which can conform to the shape of the user's face when the facemask is secured.

A mild recovery from the previous two days' steep losses was turned on its head in the region on Tuesday after Moderna head Stephane Bancel told the Financial Times that existing vaccines might not be as effective against the new Covid strain owing to its multitude of mutations.

A hacking group known as Black Shadow claimed responsibility for the attack.

The strain, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a "variant of interest", in the global health body’s weekly pandemic bulletin

Iranian health officials have acknowledged that the ministry's figures understate the real toll

The study, which has not been peer reviewed, is based on the results of a survey by Britain's Office for National Statistics

Locating origins of the pandemic began important for establishing the origins of all future animal-human spillover events, WHO said.

The trial will test the efficacy of combining an "inactivated" vaccine made by China's Sinovac with a DNA-based one developed by US pharmaceutical company Inovio

The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was found in samples taken from a patient who died on August 2 in southern Gueckedou prefecture

The testing centres are aimed at the non-vaccinated and those who have recovered from the virus and need a health pass

The study also found double vaccinated people may be less likely to pass on the virus to others than those who have not received a vaccine.

A resurgent virus has returned with a vengeance, buoyed by stalling vaccination rates and deadly new mutations.

The total number of recoveries in the Kingdom increased to 507,374 after 1,285 more patients recovered from the virus.

Saudi Arabia has suspended flights to three countries, including the neighbouring United Arab Emirates, to protect against a coronavirus variant, the interior ministry said Saturday. The move comes seven weeks after the oil-rich kingdom permitted fully immunised citizens to travel abroad, after a ban on foreign trips that lasted more...