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1 year, 4 months ago

'I like the name..." WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus on being called 'Tulsi bhai' by PM Modi

During his visit to India, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said that he liked being called 'Tulsi bhai', after he was called by that name by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a social media post. Reacting to a video of the WHO chief playing 'dandiya' in Gujarat, PM Modi tweeted, "My good friend Tulsi Bhai is …

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3 years ago

Blanket COVID boosters risk prolonging pandemic, WHO chief warns

Al Jazeera

WHO chief Tedros insists priority remains getting vaccines to unvaccinated and vulnerable people everywhere. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted on Wednesday that the priority must remain to get vaccines to vulnerable people everywhere rather than giving additional doses to the already vaccinated. And he noted that “the vast majority of hospitalisations and deaths are in unvaccinated people, not un-boosted …

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3 years ago

Omicron spreading at rate we have not seen with any previous variant: WHO Chief

India TV News

Highlights WHO on Tuesday said that Omicron has spread in more than 70 countries. As concerns regarding the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 is on the rise, the World Health Organization Chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said that the new variant has been detected in over 70 countries and it was likely already present in most countries in the …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray is under a ‘systematic’ blockade: WHO chief

Al Jazeera

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said Tigrayans across the country were being profiled and arrested by the thousands. Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region is under “systematic blockade”, the World Health Organization director-general has said, warning that people were starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicine. “People are dying because of lack of supplies,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself from …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Health Minister Mandaviya, WHO chief Tedros hold 'detailed iteraction' over Covaxin's emergency use listing

India TV News

In a telephonic conversation with Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, World Health Organisation Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday discussed the emergency use listing of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. What WHO said on Covaxin Earlier on Monday, the WHO said it is expecting one additional piece of information from Bharat Biotech regarding its COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN and emphasised that it has to …

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3 years, 7 months ago

No Covid variant has emerged so far that undermines vaccine efficacy, but...: WHO chief's word of caution

India Today

Amid growing concerns over virulent strains of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation has said no Covid-19 variants have emerged that undermine the efficacy of vaccines. The virus is constantly changing,” said WHO chief Tedros in his opening remarks at the 74th World Health Assembly on Thursday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged member states to support a “sprint to September” to vaccinate …

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4 years, 5 months ago

WHO chief slams Pompeo's claims he was bought by China

CNN

London The World Health Organization chief attacked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's "unacceptable" claims that the Director-General had been "bought" by China and said countries should focus on saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, in one of his strongest rebuttals to date against criticism from the United States. Pompeo made the claim about Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a private …

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4 years, 5 months ago

China ‘bought’ WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Michael Pompeo tells UK MPs

Live Mint

U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told a group of British lawmakers that China had “bought” the head of the World Health Organization, according to people familiar with the matter. Speaking a day after Tuesday’s meeting, Conservative member of Parliament Iain Duncan Smith, who was present, confirmed that Pompeo had said China swayed the WHO director-general election in May 2017 …

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4 years, 10 months ago

New coronavirus will be called Covid-19, says World Health Organization chief Tedros

India Today

World Health Organization chief Tedros on Tuesday said that new coronavirus will be called Covid-19. "The first vaccine could be ready in 18 months, so we have to do everything today using available weapons to fight this virus," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva. The World Health Organization asked countries to be "as aggressive as possible" in fighting the newly …

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5 years, 11 months ago

AP Exclusive: UN health chief orders probe into misconduct

Associated Press

LONDON — The head of the World Health Organization has ordered an internal investigation into allegations the U.N. health agency is rife with racism, sexism and corruption, after a series of anonymous emails with the explosive charges were sent to top managers last year. Tedros — a former health minister of Ethiopia and WHO’s first African director-general — said investigators …

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