China has stepped up emergency pandemic drills across the country and announced tighter surveillance of incoming travelers amid warnings that a more lethal and transmissible strain of the mpox virus is spreading internationally.
According to the World Health Organization’s latest annual report, the number of tuberculosis cases worldwide increased last year as the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of health services hampered efforts to fight the disease. Henry Ridgwell has this report.
18 November marked the end of the 11th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), nearly six months after the first cases were reported in Equateur Province
While news about COVID-19 vaccines are “encouraging,” World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today (16 Nov) said “this is not the time for complacency.”
WHO’s Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said the Executive Group of the Solidarity Trial had last week decided to implement a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm of the trial, “because of concerns raised about the safety of the drug.”