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THE North Korea ordered, this Wednesday (25), a 5-day blockade in Pyongyang, the country’s capital, for “respiratory diseases”, state media reported. This is the first lockdown in the city since the government declared victory over Covid-19 last August. Residents of Pyongyang have been ordered to stay at …

The World Health Organization (WHO) is discussing next Friday whether Covid is still a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC), the highest level of alert and, in theory, of legal engagement and dedication in the world in dealing with a health disaster, including epidemics. It was on the 30th …

The World Health Organization (WHO) asked China on Saturday (14) to provide more detailed data on the Covid-19 situation in the country, after Beijing reported nearly 60,000 cases of death linked to the disease in just one month. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus requested this additional information …

The WHO (World Health Organization) announced this Friday (13) the reduction of the isolation time recommended for patients infected with Covid-19both symptomatic and asymptomatic. The period was from 13 to 10 days for people with symptoms and from 10 to 5 days for those without signs of …

The WHO (World Health Organization) released this Friday (13) updated recommendations for Covid-19. Among the indications, the social isolation of those with the disease was the one that had the greatest change. An important means of preventing the spread of the virus, social isolation has been a recommended measure since …

China on Thursday called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to be “objective” and “impartial”, after its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, assured that Beijing is not giving complete numbers of deaths from Covid in the country. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, China has shared information and …

Brazil went against the grain of the world trend and showed a drop in acceptance of vaccination against Covid in the last year. Worldwide, the desire to get vaccinated against Covid rose by an average of 5.2%, from 75.2% in 2021 to 79.1% in 2022, according to a survey of …

The first case of the XBB.1.5 variant of the coronavirus, considered the most transmissible so far by the WHO (World Health Organization), was identified in a sample of the virus in São Paulo. The sample, which was collected on November 9 from a 54-year-old patient in Indaiatuba (103 kilometers from …

The first case of the XBB.1.5 variant of the coronavirus, considered the most transmissible so far by the WHO (World Health Organization), was identified in a sample of the virus in São Paulo. The sample, which was collected on November 9 from a 54-year-old patient in Indaiatuba (103 kilometers from …

posted on 01/03/2023 14:10 (credit: Heitor RETAMAL/AFP) In Shanghai’s overstretched hospitals, elderly Covid-19 patients – coughing and having trouble breathing – overwhelm emergency services. Three years after the emergence of the first cases of coronavirus in its territory, China is facing an unprecedented pandemic wave since it suspended the …