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COVID-19 pandemic remains a global emergency but end could be in sight: WHO

The coronavirus pandemic remains a global emergency but the end could be in sight if countries use the tools at their disposal, a spokesperson for the World Health Organisation told a briefing on Tuesday.

Reuters

End of Covid-19 pandemic ‘in sight’, says World Health Organisation

The WHO said weekly deaths from the virus around the world are at the lowest level since March 2020

The Independent UK

WHO sees October COVID surge in Ukraine, cites polio concerns

The World Health Organisation expects a rise in COVID-19 in Ukraine to peak in October, possibly bringing hospitals close to their capacity threshold, WHO's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

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Breakthrough malaria vaccine which is 'best yet' could prevent millions of deaths

Toddlers who received the final booster of the R21/Matrix-M vaccine had at least 75% protection, offering hope to half the world’s population who live in areas at risk of malaria

Daily Mirror

India’s first cervical cancer vaccine coming out tomorrow

Country's first homegrown vaccine for cervical cancer is expected to be launched tomorrow, as per news agency ANI. This vaccine will be the light in the path of managing cervical cancer which is the fourth most common cancer in women. This form of cancer develops in a woman's cervix. As…

The Times of India

Night shifts and late working could increase your cancer risk

The World Health Organisation has classified it as a "possible carcinogenic"

Liverpool Echo

Tigray war: ‘I can’t help my starving family’, says Ethiopian World Health Organisation boss

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns Tigrayan relatives are ‘completely sealed off’ by civil war

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Daily Dose Ep 1134: Ghulam Nabi Azad quits Congress, SC on Yogi’s hate speech case

Tanishka Sodhi brings you the news from New Delhi, the Supreme Court, Goa, the Kerala High Court, and the World Health Organisation.

Newslaundry

Monkeypox patient's small red spot eventually caused his nose to rot away

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: The man first visited his GP with a small red mark on his face, before it developed into necrosis within three days, causing his nose to completely scab over and turn black

Daily Mirror

Japan PM Kishida and WHO chief agree on new WHO affiliate in Japan -Kyodo news agency

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus agreed to establish a new Japan-based affiliate of the WHO, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported on Thursday.

Reuters

China warns new virus 'spread from a shrew' has infected 35 people

The new "Langya" virus has already infected dozens across two of China's eastern provinces.

Daily Record

China reports 35 people infected by new deadly virus 'spread from a shrew'

The “Langya” virus has already infected dozens across two of China's eastern provinces

Irish Mirror

China sounds alarm as new virus 'spread from a shrew' infects 35 people across country

Scientists in China studied 25 animals and decided the shrew is the most likely transmitter of the entirely new Langya virus - which could already be transmitting among humans

Daily Mirror

Scottish monkeypox cases rise to 67 as WHO experts declare global emergency

Monkeypox cases across the UK are on the rise. Amidst World Health Organisation concerns, Public Health Scotland's vaccine program is getting under way despite limited global supply.

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The Independent UK

Monkeypox: UK health officials identify new symptoms

‘It is important to recognise that just one or two genital or anal lesions, or lesions in the mouth, can be signs of monkeypox, especially if you have had a new sexual partner,’ says UK Health Security Agency

The Independent UK

Health Secretary ‘must take more action on monkeypox or it will become endemic’

The World Health Organisation last month declared a global emergency but British authorities have called for calm.

The Independent UK

Monkeypox: UK health officials identify new symptoms

Dublin Live

Almost 100 cases of monkeypox cases confirmed in Ireland with 10 people hospitalised

The median age of those infected with the disease in Ireland is 36

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Wales Online

How the monkeypox vaccine will be distributed in Wales

Six further cases of monkeypox were identified in Wales at the start of last week

The Independent UK

Monkeypox: UK health officials identify new symptoms

The Independent UK

Monkeypox: UK health officials identify new symptoms

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Monkeypox in Australia: should you be worried? And who can get the vaccine?

On July 23, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took the unprecedented step and declared the monkeypox outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern” – the highest global alert level for a disease outbreak.

Daily Mirror

Inside the super-secure laboratory trying to stop the world's next pandemic

Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland is the first super secure facility tasked by the World Health Organisation to store deadly pathogens such as Covid in a bid to fight future outbreaks

Reuters

Inside the super-secure Swiss lab trying to stop the next pandemic

The setting is straight from a spy thriller: Crystal waters below, snow-capped Swiss Alps above and in between, a super-secure facility researching the world's deadliest pathogens.

Wales Online

Spain records first monkeypox related death

Declared as a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation, this is the first death in Spain out of 4,298 infections there

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