Manama, World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa on designating the Bahraini Doctor’s Day, on the first Wednesday of the month of November, and the launch of a prize…
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WHO head urges world not to drop guard as pandemic still growing
Geneva, The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries on Monday to press on with efforts to contain the novel coronavirus, noting the pandemic was worsening globally and had not peaked in central America. More than 136,000 cases were reported worldwide…
World reaches 400,000 virus deaths as pope urges caution
Barcelona, The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a day after the government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths…
UK coronavirus death toll rises 77 to 40,542
London, The United Kingdom’s death toll from confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose by 77 to 40,542 as of 1600 GMT on June 6, according to government data published on Sunday. Scotland and Northern Ireland earlier reported no COVID-19 deaths in…
UAE Contributes 500,000 COVID-19 Testing Kits worth USD 10 Million to World Health Organization.
The United Arab Emirates announced today that it had donated USD 10 million worth of PCR COVID-19 testing kits sufficient for 500,000 people to the World Health Organization. The donation was made in cooperation with Group 42 (G42), a leading UAE Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing company, and Chinese…