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Stephanie Nebehay

ARTICLES BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading faster than the Delta variant (REUTERS)

Omicron Covid variant spreading faster than Delta, infecting the vaccinated: WHO

2 min read . 21 Dec 2021

WHO urges member states to vaccinate, shore up health systems

Omicron poses very high global risk, world must prepare, warns WHO

2 min read . 29 Nov 2021

Further research is needed to better understand Omicron's potential to escape protection against immunity induced by vaccines and previous infections. (WHO)

Omicron covid variant poses ‘very high’ global risk, countries must prepare: WHO

1 min read . 29 Nov 2021

The WHO's interim guidance was issued as more regulatory agencies authorise certain vaccines for use in children, including the United States, China, European Union, India and Israel, and most recently Canada last week (Photo: Reuters)

Children at lower risk from Covid, vaccines should go to poor: WHO

1 min read . 24 Nov 2021

WHO has asked countries to revise national vaccination strategies in the light of emerging evidence and new vaccines.reuters

Global licence deal to provide Covid antibody test tech free to poorer countries

2 min read . 23 Nov 2021

China has repeatedly dismissed theories that the virus leaked from one of its laboratories and has said no more visits are needed. (AFP)

'Our last chance' to find Covid origins, says WHO

2 min read . 14 Oct 2021

The WHO plan calls for further studies in China - but not in other countries - and specifically for audits of laboratories around Wuhan, diplomats said. (AP)

WHO proposes fresh mission to China and lab audits: Report

2 min read . 16 Jul 2021

World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks as he attends the World Health Assembly (WHA) (via REUTERS)

WHO official says can't force China to give more information on Covid-19 origins

1 min read . 07 Jun 2021

Employment growth will be insufficient to make up for the losses suffered until at least 2023, the ILO said in a report (Photo: Reuters)

No recovery in global jobs market from pandemic until at least 2023: ILO

1 min read . 02 Jun 2021

World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Photo: Reuters)

WHO's Tedros calls for a global treaty on pandemic preparedness, response

1 min read . 31 May 2021

Health ministers from WHO's 194 member states will also meet from Nov. 29 to decide whether to launch negotiations on an international treaty aimed at boosting defences against any future pandemic. (Photo: Reuters)

WHO, at heart of world's sluggish Covid response, could face shake-up

2 min read . 31 May 2021

US President Joe Biden. (AP)

Drugmakers say Biden misguided over vaccine patent waiver

2 min read . 06 May 2021

India's death toll is now nearing 200,000, and some hospitals are turning away coronavirus patients as they do not have enough oxygen supplies and beds

WHO steps up aid to India to stem COVID-19 surge

1 min read . 27 Apr 2021

A health worker adjusts the face shield of another as she prepares to go inside a quarantine center for COVID-19 patients in New Delhi (AP)

Rush to hospitals, big gatherings worsen India COVID crisis: WHO

1 min read . 27 Apr 2021

The WHO’s director-general complained about China’s delay in granting visas to an incoming WHO team seeking to investigate covid-19’s origins

WHO says it does not back vaccination passports for now

1 min read . 06 Apr 2021

Photo: Getty Images

One in three women endure physical or sexual violence: WHO

1 min read . 09 Mar 2021

Demonstrators display placards calling for the release of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and flash three-fingered salutes, a symbol of resistance, against the military coup during a protest in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Protesters continued to gather Wednesdayin Mandalay breaching Myanmar's new military rulers' decrees that effectively banned peaceful public protests in the country's two biggest cities. (AP Photo) (AP)

Myanmar to face push at UN rights forum to allow access

1 min read . 10 Feb 2021

ILO data show that women and younger workers were most affected, while the hardest-hit sectors were accommodation, food services, retail and manufacturing

Fragile recovery seen in global labour market after huge 2020 losses: ILO

2 min read . 25 Jan 2021

A bus carrying members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic leaves Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. (REUTERS)

Pandemic could be WHO's Chernobyl moment, review panel says

2 min read . 19 Jan 2021

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Photo: Reuters)

WHO chief Tedros looks forward to working 'very closely' with Biden team

1 min read . 09 Nov 2020