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India on Thursday (May 5) objected to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report of people having died as a result of COVID-19, which showed the country's toll was nearly 10 times the reported figure.

According to Maria van Kerkhove from the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, BA.4 and BA.5 have been detected in a number of countries. The WHO is still evaluating the severity of the two new variants.

Ramathibodi Hospital said on Thursday it would be ready to sequence the DNA of the hepatitis virus if there is an outbreak of acute, severe hepatitis among Thai children following an alert issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Twelve countries have reported acute hepatitis for unknown reasons among children, with at least one death, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed India’s happiness over being chosen as the home of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine.

A leading Thai pulmonologist on Friday called on the government to speed up administering booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine after the World Health Organization reversed its previous stand on use of boosters.

World Obesity Day is marked on March 4 every year and aims to raise awareness about obesity and the health impacts it can have.

The global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25 percent in the first year of the pandemic, according to a scientific brief released by the WHO.

GENEVA — Việt Nam is among five countries newly selected to receive mRNA vaccine technology transfer from a global biomanufacturing training hub established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in South Africa.

President Moon Jae-in on Thursday welcomed a decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up a global biomanufacturing training hub in South Korea, saying the move would help Seoul achieve its goal of becoming a global vaccine hub.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said the worst may now be over for the Philippines and it supports government’s move to reopen its borders and relax quarantine protocols as long as it continues to implement measures to reduce COVID-19 risk.

Vaccines that are being used for protection in terms of reducing hospitalizations and deaths were working very well, WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said. "Herd immunity through natural infection is a very foolish idea."