BEIRUT — Dozens of medical workers in rebel-held northwest Syria on Monday protested a decision to grant President Bashar Assad’s government a seat on the executive board of the World Health Organization. They said Assad […]
This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019 with “symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.” That report followed […]
LONDON — In a commentary published Tuesday, more than 20 heads of government and global agencies called for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness that they say will protect future generations in the wake of […]
BEIJING — A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is […]
GENEVA — The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization said Monday the agency’s “best estimates” indicate roughly 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by the coronavirus — more than 20 […]
LONDON — More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air — a change that could alter some of the current […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak in China and will begin the process of withdrawing […]
GENEVA — The World Health Organization bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus, which has been clouded […]
If you’re a Shakespeare fan, you might know what a character in “As You Like It” said about facing adversity. When Duke Senior loses his dukedom to a usurping brother and is banished to the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. would halt funding for the World Health Organization while it assesses the group’s “role in severly mismanaging” the outbreak of coronavirus. “Today I’m instructing […]
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