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WHO warns of health risks amid flood in Pakistan

As of August 25, more than 33 million people have been affected and over 6.4 million people are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 421,000 refugees…reports Asian Lite News The catastrophic

September 1, 2022

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WHO declares monkeypox a global emergency

WHO previously declared emergencies for public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, the Zika virus in Latin America in 2016 and the ongoing effort to

July 24, 2022

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Monkeypox declared global health emergency

Expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency. The World Health Organisation on Saturday declared the monkeypox as public health emergency

July 23, 2022

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Covid-19 nowhere near over, warns WHO

Last Friday, the WHO’s Emergency Committee concluded that the virus remains a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) and warned of several interlinked challenges….reports Asian Lite News The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic

July 13, 2022

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WHO: Afghanistan to receive monkeypox test kits

The Afghan health sector currently lacks kits to test for monkeypox…reports Asian Lite News The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) will provide monkeypox test kits to

June 7, 2022

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Russia may sever ties with WHO, WTO

The WHO member states have already tried to force the health body, which typically avoids taking a stance on politics, into taking action over the invasion…reports Asian Lite News Russia may sever

May 19, 2022

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India Covid death toll highest in world, says WHO as govt rejects report

Excess mortality is calculated as the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred and the number that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic based on data from

May 6, 2022

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FIGHT AGAINST MALARIA

WHO says Malaria killed over 600,000 people in Africa last year. Malaria remains a significant public health and development challenge and in the last year, about 95% of the estimated 228 million

April 26, 2022

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India stopping WHO to release global Covid deaths to public

Terming it “flawed,” the government has questioned the World Health Organization’s (WHO) methodology for estimating the deaths caused by Covid-19 in India, media report says…reports Asian Lite News According to the New

April 17, 2022

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Africa not yet out of Covid-19 despite decreasing infections: WHO

African countries need to stay vigilant and weigh the risks before relaxing Covid-19 measures, despite the decreasing infections, warned the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a statement, noting that the continent is

April 15, 2022

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