Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that it has been monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as ‘Mu’, which was first identified in Colombia in January. Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a ‘variant of interest,’ the global health body said in its weekly pandemic bulletin. The WHO said … Read more
WHO’s pandemic program aims to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm COVID-19 jabs by the end of September. Chinese vaccination will be sent mostly to African and Asian countries, in its first delivery of Chinese vaccines, a WHO document shows. The Chinese shipments will aid the spluttering global COVAX vaccine sharing program … Read more
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has the potential to exceed that in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday as the number of reported US cases surges. The sources said, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters during a virtual press conference that 85 percent of the new cases reported to the global … Read more
The number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus ‘COVID-19’ infections in Pakistan has risen to 20. Gilgit-Baltistan has reported its second patient on Wednesday. Karachi has the worst affected city so far, with 15 of the total confirmed cases. Two cases had reported in Gilgit-Baltistan and one case has been reported each in Islamabad, Hyderabad … Read more
The World Health Organization sees the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. He told a news conference, “We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can … Read more
Apple on Saturday said it would shut all of its official stores and corporate offices in mainland China until Feb 9 as fears over the coronavirus outbreak mounted. Apple announces to shut its official stores amid coronavirus death toll jumped more than doubled to over 250 from a week ago. “Out of an abundance of … Read more
