COVID-19 global surveillance aims to monitor the extension of the pandemic across countries, the severity of the disease and risk factors, and the impact of control measures. Data collection tools and standardized surveillance methods were documented in the interim guidance Public Health Surveillance ...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been all over the news since the COVID-19 pandemic began but how much do we really know about the foundations of the Geneva-based organization? The Agenda takes a look at the what, when and why of the WHO. Founded after the Second World War,...
After more than three long, difficult years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that COVID-19 is no longer a recognised "global health emergency", via a new statement. A statement that will no doubt be met with mixed emotions by many, especially those who are still very much...
World Health Organisation (WHO) has upgraded COVID-19 global outbreak to pandemic status. A pandemic is defined as a disease that spreads in multiple countries around the world at the same time. WHO is not changing it’s advice about what countries should do. Schools and university were shut...
Introduction: A large number of COVID-19 publications has created a need to collect all research-related material in practical and reliable centralized databases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the functionality and quality of the compiled World Health Organisation COVID-19 database and com...
The World Health Assembly, convened by World Health Organisation (WHO) has applauded nurses and midwives in their fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, describing them as true health heroes. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of WHO, said this at the ongoing two-day World ...
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that vaccines have saved more from death than any other medical invention.It is a hard claim to gainsay.Vaccines protect people from disease cheaply, reliably and in remarkable numbers. And their capacity to do so continues to grow. In 2021 the WHO ...
The World Health Organisation has warned the coronavirus pandemic has still not reached its peak – as lockdown measures are relaxed to make international travel easier. The director general of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the virus is not under control “in mos...
COVID-19Infectious diseaseSARISARS2020In late 2019, Wuhan in Hubal province of China suffered an outbreak in the form of acute respiratory disease-causing severe mortality due to the novel corona virus which was later declared and identified as COVID-19 by World Health Organisation (WHO) in ...