Health officials from the 194 member states of the World Health Organization hope next week to complete more than two years of negotiations on new rules for responding to pandemics when they gather in Geneva. Negotiations go to the wire on Friday for two complementary deals set to be formalised at the May 27-June 1 meeting: an update to existing …
On July 23, the World Health Organisation declared the monkeypox disease as a “public health emergency of international concern”. However, monkeypox was the first and only time that the IHR emergency committee had not advised yet the WHO director-general, who decided to designate it as PHEIC and is fully empowered to do so. This is also the first time that …
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus says team of experts to travel to epicentre of the virus to study its origins. Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s John Nkengasong said 23 of Africa’s 54 countries have reported a sustained decrease in new confirmed coronavirus cases in the past couple of weeks. Musumeci’s decree also banned any migrant from “entering, transiting …
