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WTO postpones Geneva ministerial conference over new coronavirus variant concern

New coronavirus strain: The World Trade Organization postponed its in-person ministerial conference in Geneva as Switzerland tightened travel restrictions following the discovery of a new strain of the coronavirus, people familiar with the situation said.

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WHO: Europe could see another 700K COVID-19 deaths by spring

GENEVA - The World Health Organization’s Europe office says projections show its 53-country region could face another 700,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic by next spring, topping 2 million in total.WHO Europe, which is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, also cited growing evidence of a decline in protection against infection and mild disease through vaccines, and said a "booster dose" should be given as a priority to the most vulnerable populations — including people with weakened immune systems — as well as people over age 60 and health care workers.The U.N.

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French ex-health minister charged over handling of Covid pandemic: prosecutor

Former French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn has been put under formal investigation over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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WHO wants richer countries to delay Covid booster jabs until 2022

The World Health Organization has called for countries to avoid giving out extra Covid jabs until "at least" the end of this year, pointing to the millions worldwide who have yet to receive a single dose.

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WHO Chief: Push to rule out Covid lab theory may have been 'premature'

The World Health Organization chief has acknowledged that a prior push to all but rule out the possibility that Covid-19 may have escaped from a lab had been "premature".

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WHO chief Tedros says China must co-operate better with Covid-19 origin probe

probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the first cases of which were seen in Wuhan in December 2019, the head of World Health Organization said on Thursday.

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Biden thanks Americans as U.S. hits 300M COVID-19 vaccine shots in 150 days

‘Two great powers’: Biden, Putin meet face-to-face in Geneva for 1st time as leaders But as Biden marks one milestone, he is in danger of failing to meet another: his target to have 70% of American adults at least partially vaccinated by July Fourth, in a little over two weeks.Overall, about 168 million American adults, or 65.1% of the U.S. population 18 years and older, have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Friday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The pace of new vaccinations in the U.S.

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Biden-Putin summit: Leaders to meet face-to-face for talks in Geneva

GENEVA - U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin sit down Wednesday for their highly anticipated summit in the Swiss city of Geneva, a moment of high-stakes diplomacy at a time when both leaders agree that relations between their countries are at an all-time low.For four months, the two leaders have traded sharp rhetoric.

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COVID-19 variant 1st reported in India 'threatens' to rapidly spread in Asia-Pacific region: UNHCR

UNITED NATIONS : The highly-infectious Covid-19 variant first detected in India “threatens" to rapidly spread in the sub-region, including among refugees, the UN refugee agency has said as it warned of vaccine shortages in the Asia-Pacific region, including for asylum-seekers.United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Andrej Mahecic, at a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday, said that the fragile health systems in many countries in the Asia and Pacific region have struggled to cope with the recent surge of coronavirus cases.“We are particularly worried about the situation in the Asia and Pacific region, which in the past two months has experienced the largest increase in the number of cases globally," he said.Over

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Biden to meet Putin face-to-face for Geneva summit in June

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the two leaders that comes amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia in the first months of the Biden administration.The White House confirmed details of the summit on Tuesday.

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Don't vaccinate kids, give Covid-19 doses to Covax instead: WHO chief

- 'Bittersweet' -In the face of this inequity in access, Tedros warned that the world would likely see more deaths this year than last, despite the arrival of vaccines."We're on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first," he said."Saving lives and livelihoods with a combination of public health measures and vaccination -- not one or the other -- is the only way out."The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3.3 million people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.Tedros, 56, meanwhile said that he had been vaccinated against Covid-19 earlier this week in Geneva, the Swiss city where the WHO is based."It was a bittersweet moment,"

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WHO welcomes Sweden’s announcement to share COVID-19 vaccine doses with COVAX

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the Government of Sweden’s announcement today to share 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with the COVAX Facility to provide life-saving vaccines to people at risk from COVID-19 in low income countries.

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WHO warns of Covid-19 peaks in South America

The World Health Organization has warned that South America, especially Brazil, has been suffering complicated and severe Covid-19 crisis.

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UN runs aground in informal Cyprus talks, new round planned

GENEVA – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots failed to make headway in informal talks on the future of their divided island nation, but talks will continue and “I do not give up.”

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Federer to play the French Open, preparing for it at Geneva

PARIS – Roger Federer announced Sunday he will play at the French Open, and the Swiss star is preparing for it on home clay at a tournament in Geneva next month.

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WHO and the International Organisation of the Francophonie (IOF) sign Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen access to health in Francophone countries

The World Health Organization and the International Organisation of the Francophonie (IOF) today signed a memorandum of understanding to scale up collaboration and boost access to health services in Francophone countries.

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World leaders call for international treaty on pandemic preparedness

FILE - World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talks during a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headquaters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) International regulations governing health and implemented by WHO already exist — and can be disregarded by countries with few consequences.

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WHO report: Jump from animals most likely COVID-19 source

A leaked draft report on the World Health Organization (WHO) joint mission to China to probe the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, says that transmission from bats or other animals to humans is the most likely source, with a lab leak unlikely.

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WHO to release report next week on origins of COVID-19

This photograph taken on January 29, 2021 shows a sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) at the entrance of their headquarters in Geneva amid the Covid-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FAB GENEVA - The World Health Organization said it will release a report on the origins of the novel coronavirus next week.The WHO was expected to release the report the week of March 15 after a delegation traveled to China.

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UN says Ebola in Guinea may be linked to 2014 outbreak

GENEVA – A top official at the World Health Organization said that a genetic analysis of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Guinea suggests it may have been sparked by a survivor of the devastating West Africa epidemic that ended five years ago.

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UN report: South Sudan's violence 'worse' than in civil war

NAIROBI – The scale of violence in South Sudan is “a lot worse” than during the country’s five-year civil war, a United Nations commission announced Friday, accusing senior officials of supporting armed groups that at times have included tens of thousands of fighters.

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UN expert fears violence with troops sent to Myanmar city

YANGON – The U.N. expert on human rights in Myanmar warned of the prospect for major violence as demonstrators gather again Wednesday to protest the military’s seizure of power.

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US moves to rejoin UN rights council, reversing Trump anew

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is set to announce this week that it will reengage with the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council that former President Donald Trump withdrew from almost three years ago, U.S. officials said Sunday. The decision reverses another Trump-era move away from multilateral organizations and agreements.

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WHO recommends followup care for patients with changing COVID-19 symptoms

Coronavirus patients – both confirmed and suspected – should have access to followup care if they have persistent, new or changing symptoms, the World Health Organization has recommended.The U.N. health agency updated its clinical guidelines on Tuesday, in which it also suggested the use of low-dose anticoagulants for preventing blot clots in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

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WHO issues new clinical advice on treating COVID-19 patients

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) issued fresh clinical advice on Tuesday for treating COVID-19 patients, including those displaying persistent symptoms after recovery, and also said it advised using low-dose anti-coagulants to prevent blood clots.WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a U.N. briefing in Geneva that a WHO-led team of independent experts, currently in the central Chinese city of Wuhan where the first human cases were detected in December 2019, is due to leave quarantine in the next two days to pursue its work on the virus origins.Harris declined to comment on reports of delays in roll-out of vaccines in the European Union.

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WHO chief lambasts vaccine profits, demands elderly go first

GENEVA – The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers' profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it’s “not right” that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against COVID-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries and charging that most vaccine makers have targeted locations where “profits are highest.”Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus kicked off WHO’s week-long executive board meeting — virtually from its headquarters in Geneva — by lamenting that one poor country received a mere 25 vaccine doses while over 39 million doses have been administered in nearly 50 richer nations.“Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest income country -- not 25 million, not 25,000

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China reports first coronavirus death in 8 months

China has recorded its first Covid-19 death in eight months, as experts gathered to discuss worrying new strains of the coronavirus that are spreading rapidly around the globe.

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Switzerland says arrivals from Ireland must quarantine

People travelling from Ireland will now face quarantine in Switzerland, officials said, following World Health Organization warnings of a "massive increase" in cases.

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UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile

NEW YORK/ GENEVA: The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response.

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UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile

NEW YORK/ GENEVA: The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response.

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WHO team sent to probe Covid origins turned away from China at last minute

World Health Organisation team dispatched to China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus were refused access to the country at the last minute.

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Covid-19: WHO 'disappointed' over China not allowing experts to examine origins

Also Read | The race to take fashion retail online“Today, we learned that Chinese officials have not yet finalized the necessary permissions for the team’s arrival in China," Tedros said during a news conference in Geneva.“I’m very disappointed with this news, given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute, but had been in contact with senior Chinese officials," he said.Tedros said he “made it clear" that the mission was a priority for the U.N.

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Covid-19 vaccines: India’s proposed WTO patent waiver faces stiff opposition from US, EU

Covid-19 vaccines look set to protect millions of citizens of the world’s richest countries in the coming months. But inoculating the rest of the planet’s population may mean finding a way around an impasse over intellectual property.Representatives from all 164 member states of the World Trade Organization met last week in Geneva to discuss a proposal from India and South Africa to waive broad sections of the WTO’s intellectual property rules and to try to forge an agreement on how patents developed in the race against Covid-19 should be recognized.The meeting ended without consensus, leaving poorer countries who sponsored the proposal frustrated and legal protections for vaccines intact.

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Authorities investigating new Covid-19 variant: WHO

GENEVA: The World Health Organization is aware of a new variant of COVID-19 that has emerged in Britain, but there is no evidence the strain behaves differently to existing types of the virus, it said on Monday."We are aware of this genetic variant reported in 1,000 individuals in England," the WHO's top emergencies expert Mike Ryan told a news briefing in Geneva. "Authorities are looking at its significance.

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Human rights in U.S. will be ‘much better’ under Biden: UN high commissioner

Joe Biden will be “much, much better” when it comes to human rights, and warned of shrinking “democratic space” in Hong Kong — saying her office will be monitoring the rights situation there.Michelle Bachelet spoke to reporters in Geneva in a catch-all news conference to recap the year and look ahead to 2021.She cited concerns about the inequalities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism like that highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement.

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2 charged with murder after allegedly stabbing Sanford man, deputies say

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A couple from Deltona is behind bars for first-degree murder after the death of a Sanford man in August.According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, Jaide Caporale, 30 and Marvin Bryant, 36 were arrested Friday after the death of 30-year-old Jo’el Cosby.Deputies said Cosby was Caporale’s on-and-off boyfriend and fell victim to a stabbing. Deputies found his body on Aug.

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UN rights chief laments worsening situation in Belarus

GENEVA – The United Nations' human rights chief lamented a deteriorating situation in Belarus and said Friday that reported beatings of protesters by security forces may in some cases amount to torture.Michelle Bachelet, the high commissioner for human rights, told the U.N. Human Rights Council there has been no improvement since a September debate about Belarus and “recent weeks have seen continued deterioration, particularly with respect to the right of peaceful assembly.”Belarus has seen mass protests triggered by President Alexander Lukashenko’s election to a sixth term in an Aug.

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UN: Food has run out for nearly 100,000 refugees in Ethiopia

NAIROBI – The United Nations says food has now run out for the nearly 100,000 refugees from Eritrea who have been sheltering in camps in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, which has been cut off from the world for nearly a month amid fighting.“Concerns are growing by the hour,” U.N. refugee spokesman Babar Baloch told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.

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'We need to know origin of Covid-19 to prevent future outbreaks': WHO chief

Brazil has to be "very, very serious" in face of rising Covid cases and deaths, calls the trend "very, very worrisome".Brazil registered 24,468 new cases and 272 more deaths on Sunday, bringing its national caseload to 6,314,740 and death toll to 172,833, the Health Ministry said.When asked about upcoming ski season in Europe, WHO's top emergency expert Mike Ryan said risk is not skiing itself but airports, buses, ski lifts, apres ski."We would ask that all countries look at ski season and other reasons for mass gatherings very, very carefully," said Ryan."I think it's highly speculative for us to say that the disease did not emerge in China," Ryan said at a virtual briefing in Geneva a couple of days ago after being asked if COVID-19 could

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WHO says would be 'highly speculative' to say Covid-19 did not emerge in China

GENEVA : The World Health Organization's top emergency expert said on Friday it would be "highly speculative" for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China, where it was first identified in a food market in December last year.China is pushing a narrative via state media that the virus existed abroad before it was discovered in the central city of Wuhan, citing the presence of coronavirus on imported frozen food packaging and scientific papers claiming it had been circulating in Europe last year."I think it's highly speculative for us to say that the disease did not emerge in China," Mike Ryan said at a virtual briefing in Geneva after being asked if COVID-19 could have first emerged outside China."It is clear from a public

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UN, partners seek funds for Afghanistan at donors conference

GENEVA – Top officials including the U.N. secretary-general and U.S.

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WHO has recorded 65 cases of coronavirus at Geneva HQ, internal email reveals

World Health Organization has recorded 65 cases of the coronavirus among staff based at its headquarters, including at least one cluster of infections, an internal email obtained by The Associated Press shows, despite the agency’s past assertions that there has been no transmission at the Geneva site.The revelation comes amid a surge of cases in Europe, host country Switzerland, and the city of Geneva, in particular, and the email said about half of the infections were in people who had been working from home.

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Email obtained by AP: 65 WHO staff have virus, 1 cluster

GENEVA – The World Health Organization has recorded 65 cases of the coronavirus among staff based at its headquarters, including at least one cluster of infections, an internal email obtained by The Associated Press shows, despite the agency’s public assertions that there has been no transmission at the Geneva site.The revelation comes amid a surge of cases in Europe, host country Switzerland, and the city of Geneva, in particular, and the email said about half of the infections were in people who had been working from home.

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UN World Food Program warns 2021 could 'have famines of biblical proportions'

FILE - The new head of the World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley attends a press conference about an updated aid appeal for South Sudan on May 15, 2017 at the United Nations Office in Geneva. (ABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N.

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Geneva's landmark fountain turned off due to pandemic

Geneva's famous Jet d'Eau fountain, which spouts water over a hundred metres into the air, is to remain switched off to signal the need for people to observe virus restrictions, authorities said today.

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WHO chief Tedros to quarantine after contact gets COVID-19

#COVID19. I am well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine over the coming days, in line with @WHO protocols, and work from home.The WHO director-general has been at the forefront of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected at least 46.5 million people and led to more than 1.2 million deaths, according to a count of confirmed cases by Johns Hopkins University.The tweet did not identify who among his contacts had been infected.

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COVID-19 vaccine: WHO in talks with Russia on its second vaccine EpiVacCorona

World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said that it had had very good dialogue with developers of a second Russian vaccine candidate against COVID-19. "We will only be able to have a position on a vaccine when we see results of the phase III clinical trials," WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a news conference in Geneva.Russia registered its second coronavirus vaccine on 14 October.

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Front-line nurses suffering psychological distress, burn-out amid COVID-19: association

nurses caring for COVID-19 patients are suffering burn-out or psychological distress, and many have faced abuse or discrimination outside of work, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) said.Supplies of personal protective equipment for nurses and other health workers in some care homes remain insufficient, it said, marking World Mental Health Day on Saturday. Friend not following COVID-19 rules? Here’s when to call it quits “We are extremely concerned about the mental health impact on nurses,” Howard Catton, a British nurse who is the ICN’s chief executive, told Reuters Television at the association’s headquarters in Geneva.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0