ABU DHABI 14 April 2020: The World Health Organisation (WHO), has intensified its efforts to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus, Covid-19, said a WHO press release issued on Monday. As part of the […]
GENEVA 9 April 2020: Today marks 100 days since the World Health Organisation (WHO), was notified of the first cases of “pneumonia with unknown cause” in China. In the daily media briefing on Covid-19, WHO […]
GENEVA 8 April 2020: Nurses account for more than half of all the world’s health workers, providing vital services throughout the health system and the Covid-19 pandemic underscores the urgent need to strengthen the global […]
UAE 18 March 2020: The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHaP), announced 15 new cases of Covid-19, on Tuesday, bringing to 113 the total infection tally in the UAE. “The new cases have been detected […]
ABU DHABI 18 March 2020: The UAE Government has ramped up coronavirus testing following the pandemic’s spread. As of Tuesday, the 17th of March, 127,000 individuals had been tested for coronavirus in the UAE, according […]
GENEVA 14 March 2020: The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday said that Europe has now become the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a news conference, WHO Chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom […]
GENEVA 12 March 2020: The World Health Organisation (WHO), sees the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. According to Reuters and Wam, he told a press […]
ABU DHABI 9 March 2020: His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has re-affirmed the UAE’s full preparedness to continue […]
GENEVA 5 March 2020: A shortage of protective equipment is endangering health workers worldwide, warned the World Health Organisation (WHO), citing “severe and mounting disruption to the global supply” caused by “rising demand, panic buying, […]
GENEVA 1 March 2020: Countries must act quickly and robustly to contain the coronavirus Covid-19 epidemic, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, as it raised the global risk assessment of the infection to “very […]