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PIA flight carrying first WHO medical supplies lands in Afghanistan: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30 (APP):Lifesaving medical supplies reached Afghanistan by a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight on Monday, the first UN shipment to arrive since the Taliban takeover more than a week ago, a UN spokesman said. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told the regular noon briefing […]

Pakistan helping in plans to fly medical supplies to Afghanistan: WHO

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (APP):Pakistan is supporting efforts to fly humanitarian supplies into Afghanistan where medical stocks are dwindling and the airport in Kabul crippled by a terrorist attack, a senior Wold Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva Friday. “We have only a few days […]

World in dangerous period, warns WHO, as coronavirus’ Delta variant evolves

UNITED NATIONS, The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the coronavirus pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta — first detected in India — which is continuing to evolve and mutate, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned. […]

One in 100 deaths is by suicide, but global rate falling: WHO

UNITED NATIONS, One in every 100 deaths is by suicide, according to new figures from the World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency. More than 700,000 people died by suicide around the world in 2019, the figures show, more than the numbers killed by […]

Smoking affects immunity, increases coronavirus risk: WHO

UNITED NATIONS, Smokers have up to a 50 per cent higher risk of developing severe diseases and death from coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has said. On World No Tobacco Day 2021, he reminded that the nicotine found in […]

KGC urges WHO and UN to ask India to release Kashmiri political prisoners from overcrowded COVID-riddled Indian jails

MIRPUR [AJK]: Kashmir Global Council (KGC), a US based Kashmiri political advocacy group has urged upon the WHO and UN must ask Indian government to release Kashmiri political prisoners from overcrowded Indian jails to prevent the spread of Covid-19, stop the Amarnath religious pilgrimage in […]

AstraZeneca jab has plausible link to blood clots: WHO

A “causal relationship” of rare cases of blood clots following the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is “plausible” but “not confirmed,” the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. The COVID-19 subcommittee of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety reviewed the latest information […]

WHO donates Rs500m to strengthen COVID-19 response efforts of govt

ISLAMABAD – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has handed-over a donation worth over Rs500 million to strengthen the COVID-19 response efforts of the government through strengthening the Surveillance System and Points of Entry. According to a statement issued by WHO, Dr Palitha Mahipala, WHO representative in Pakistan, handed […]

WHO official says pandemic to end at beginning of 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Europe said Sunday he believes the coronavirus outbreak will end in early 2022. Hans Kluge told Danish state broadcaster DR that COVID-19 will still be prevalent in 2021, but it will be more manageable than in 2020. Stating that […]

Number of COVID-19 jabs exceeds infection: WHO

Globally, the number of vaccinations against COVID-19 has now overtaken the number of reported infections, but more than three-quarters of vaccinations are in just 10 countries, the World Health Organization chief said Friday. “In one sense, that’s good news and a remarkable achievement in such […]

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