The United States on Tuesday officially submitted its notification of withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) to the United Nations secretary-general, whic
U.S. formal notification of withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) is "dangerous to human life" as the world faces not only the COVID-19 threat but also the threat of future pandemics, a
The headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, March 22, 2016. /VCGExperts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are going to China
The world's reluctance to prevent viral outbreaks would continue to claim lives and disrupt the economy, warned a report, recommending a set of actions required for controlling epidemics in the fu
A staff member handles nucleic acid testing samples at a novel coronavirus detection lab in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, February 22, 2020. /Xinhua France has recently announced that
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No coronavirus has been detected in animal samples collected from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, said Gao Fu, director of China's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who visited Wuhan
The COVID-19 pandemic reaffirms the urgency to protect global biodiversity, said Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Elizabeth Maruma Mrema on Thursday. In an exclusi
02:22 The world is observing International Day of Biological Diversity at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has led to lockdowns in many countries. With humans indoors, wild animals
The 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA), the first of its kind that held virtually since the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in 1948, ended on Tuesday with a strong global commitment to fig
Editor's Note: The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has changed the lives of many people around the world and may even change the global landscape. While Western nations are still struggling with COVID-1
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Thursday the video footage released by Daily Telegraph on May 4 about the Wuhan Virology Institute (WVI) was edited, adding similar tricks ha
Editor's note:This is the 55th article in the COVID-19 Global Roundup series. Here is thepreviousone. Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on social and economic issues via a video l
The World Health Organization (WHO) is in talks with China to send a delegation to the country for further investigations on the new coronavirus, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead for the W
01:03 A UK biomedical science expert stated that the novel coronavirus is of natural origin, and did not come from a Wuhan laboratory."My view is very clear, it's a zoonotic transfer f
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States topped 70,000 on Tuesday, representing over a quarter of all the virus deaths reported worldwide, as Americans give n
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