Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Mpox outbreak still a global emergency, WHO warns

WHO warns

GENEVA: The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has reaffirmed that the ongoing surge in mpox (monkeypox) cases continues to meet the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (IHR). This declaration follows the fourth meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee convened … Read more

Testing cuts leave world ‘increasingly blind’ to Covid spread: WHO

WHO

A dramatic drop in checking out for Covid-19 has left the arena blind to the virus’s persevering rampage and its doubtlessly risky mutations, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. The UN fitness agency stated that stated Covid cases and deaths had been losing dramatically. “Last week, just over 15 thousand deaths were reported to WHO … Read more