GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm, raising concerns about a potential global pandemic known as 'Disease X' that could be 20 times more menacing than the current COVID-19 crisis. During a recent session at the World Economic Forum, global health leaders and
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation chief fears plans for a global pandemic preparedness agreement will fall apart amid wrangling and disinformation, warning that future generations “may not forgive us”. Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO’s 194 member states decided more than two years ago to
SEOUL: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his country’s military, munitions industry and nuclear weapons sector to accelerate war preparations to counter what he called unprecedented confrontational moves by the US, state media said on Thursday. Speaking on the policy directions for the new
VIENNA: The number of murders and other intentional killings surged to a record high across the world in 2021, driven in part by the stress and economic pressures of COVID-19 lockdowns, a UN report said. Around 458,000 people were killed intentionally, higher than the 400,000 to
SINGAPORE: The world is not prepared to face another pandemic, the co-founder and chairman of Moderna said, as insufficient attention was being paid globally to health system resilience. Dr. Noubar Afeyan, a biochemical engineer who co-founded the US-based drugmaker in 2010, was speaking at the Advanced
LONDON: Boris Johnson on Wednesday apologized for “the pain and the loss and the suffering” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as he began giving evidence at a public inquiry into his government’s handling of the health crisis. The former prime minister, who has faced a barrage
BEIJING: Northern China has reported an increase in “influenza-like illness” since mid-October when compared to the same period in the previous three years, the WHO said China’s National Health Commission told reporters last week that the respiratory illness spike was due to the lifting of Covid-19
NEW YORK: A new Covid vaccine is due out next month, but health experts and analysts say it is likely to be coolly received even as hospitalisations from "Eris", a variant of the Omicron form of the coronavirus, rise around the country. Some public health experts
LONDON: Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was found responsible for deliberately misleading fellow legislators over the parties during the pandemic lockdown, according to a UK parliamentary committee report published Thursday. Had Johnson not resigned last week, the committee would have suspended him for 90 days
Beijing: China is preparing for a potential new wave of Covid-19 infections, with projections indicating that the number of cases could reach as high as 65 million per week by the end of June. This forecast is alarming for a country that only a few