Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation ruled on Saturday, June 25, although WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak. Tedros said in a…

World Health Organisation (WHO) says cases of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant have been reported in at least 23 countries in five of the six WHO regions. WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, disclosed on Wednesday in Geneva and…

World Health Organisation (WHO) says the death toll from COVID-19 is now at its lowest level in almost one year. Speaking on Wednesday at a media briefing in Geneva, Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said although the deaths are…

World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has voiced alarm at India’s record-breaking wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths, saying the organisation was rushing to help address the crisis. “The situation in India is beyond…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said at least 42 countries are already rolling out various COVID-19 vaccines which have been cleared for use with 36 of them as high income nations. WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, made…

World Health Organization has announced that China blocked its team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, from entering the country. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement on Wednesday,…

Director-General of World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has Monday said that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus pandemic. Since the virus was first recorded in November in China, the world has…

World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced that he was self-quarantining after a close contact tested positive for COVID-19. Ghebreyesus in a tweet late Sunday stated; I have been identified as a contact…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said a number of potential vaccines that may be deployed in the treatment of COVID-19 are now in phase three clinical trials. Phase 3 trials are conducted to confirm and expand on safety and…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the coronavirus pandemic is ‘easily the most severe’ emergency that the agency has ever declared. On January 30, WHO declared coronavirus as a global emergency, as the death toll from the…