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WHO suspends HCQ clinical trial on COVID-19 patients
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General, said that a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) on COVID-19 patients has come to “a temporary pause”, while ...
Trump threatens to permanently halt WHO funding, review US membership
US president Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider his country's ...
WHO to review virus response as Trump renews attack
The World Health Organization said it would launch an independent review of its response to the coronavirus pandemic as US president Donald Trump renewed his attack on the global body, branding it a ...
WHO warns virus may be here to stay
The coronavirus may never go away and populations will have to learn to live with it just as they have HIV, the World Health Organisation has warned, as the global death toll from the disease nears ...
WHO sees 'potentially positive data' for coronavirus treatment
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the COVID-19 disease, referring to the results of early studies of four or five ...
COVID-19: Govt brings changes in recovery criteria
Previously two tests in 24 hours were required to declare a patient recovered. Now a patient is declared recovered and released from hospital on the basis of symptoms
WHO chief warns of risk of returning to lockdown
As more and more countries consider how to ease the so-called lockdown restrictions, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the exit measures should ...
World is in 'fight of our lives', but there is hope, says WHO's Ryan
Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) emergencies programme, said while many countries are still in the eye of the storm, others were beginning to show it is possible ...
Pop icon Madonna claims she has COVID-19 antibodies
Taking to Instagram, the 61-year-old singer, songwriter and actress shared a video on her latest Madame X-themed "Quarantine Diary," in which she said: "I took a test the other day. I found out I ...
Coronavirus far from over, WHO chief warns again
In yet another warning to nations that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday called for the world to ...
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