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WHO estimates 15 million death toll due to COVID-19; The latest health stories from around the world

May 10, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

WHO, COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that nearly 15 million people—about one in every 500 globally—died from causes related to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021 (the first two years of the pandemic), putting the toll from COVID-19 at nearly three times the number that had been officially recorded by countries. India suffered […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Global Health, WHO, World Health Organization

Global health today: Tedros, COVID in Indonesia, and a million more COVID cases by 2022?

August 18, 2021 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

Health workers collect mucosal swab sample as part of a COVID-19 test in Padang, West Sumatra. Image credit: Official Website of West Sumatra Indonesia's Province, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

This is the first in a series of newsletters, offering the expert insight of Lalita Panicker – consulting editor, views, Hindustan Times, New Delhi – into some of the most pressing health issues of the day. Another term for Tedros? To use a well-worn cliché, the Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) is […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Science and Technology Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Indonesia, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization

100 million more? Stark warning on fresh COVID-19 cases

August 12, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), issued a frank and alarming warning about the potential for fresh COVID-19 cases to exceed 100 million by early 2022 – taking the total caseload to 300 million and counting. His warning came just a week after the global case count surpassed 200 million, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization

Delta variant identified in 96 countries

July 1, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced in its weekly epidemiological update that the so-called Delta variant is present in 96 countries. This marks an increase of eleven countries where the Delta variant has been detected compared to last week.  First identified in India, the Delta variant is considered to be more transmissible. It has been […]

Filed Under: Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Science and Technology Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Delta plus, Delta variant, World Health Organization

Covaxin to face WHO scrutiny this week

June 21, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

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India’s homegrown COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin is to face scrutiny from the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 23rd when a pre-submission hearing will be held.  Manufacturer Bharat Biotech received the WHO’s nod for its expression of interest for emergency use listing of Covaxin, in a step commentators regard as moving the vaccine closer to securing […]

Filed Under: Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, News, Science and Technology Tagged With: Bharat Biotech, coronavirus, Covaxin, COVID-19, vaccines, World Health Organization

COVAX gets boon from multi-billion dollar commitment – but India’s absence leaves a hole

June 4, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

The COVAX facility designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines received a boost earlier this week to the tune of US$2.4 billion, following a summit where countries and private donors made the mammoth commitment. Nonetheless, the facility still reels from India’s step back understandable though it may be. COVAX is jointly led by the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, Opinion, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: coronavirus, COVAX, COVID-19, vaccination, vaccines, World Health Organization

Long working hours are bad for your health

May 25, 2021 By Kerean Watts 1 Comment

Telehealth concept. Doctor with a stethoscope on the computer laptop screen. Cap.: Long working hours were responsible Image credit: gjerome69 / 123rf AI

Long working hours are detrimental to your health and may even cost lives. This is according to a recent assessment by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), which attributed long working hours to 745,000 deaths due to stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016 alone.  According to the ILO/WHO analysis, […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Medicine and Research, Noncommunicable diseases, Social issues Tagged With: employment, heart disease, International Labour Organization, noncommunicable diseases, stroke, workers, World Health Organization

Pandemic preparedness at the forefront

May 20, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

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The 74th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the highest-level decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), is to foreground pandemic preparedness whilst advancing measures to end the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has dominated headlines and the public health discourse for well in excess of a year. The public health crisis is unprecedented […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, Opinion, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, opinion, pandemic, World Health Organization

COVAX facility reaches over 100 countries, as India reaffirms commitment

April 9, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

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In the 42 days since the first shipment of vaccines through the COVAX facility arrived in Ghana, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced in a statement that more than 100 countries have been reached. India, meanwhile, has reaffirmed its commitment to COVAX after it suspended exports amidst an ongoing surge in cases. The COVAX […]

Filed Under: Infectious diseases, International Tagged With: coronavirus, COVAX, COVID-19, vaccines, World Health Organization

World Health Day in a time of global crisis – again

April 7, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

World Health Day concept. Third wave concept.

On April 5th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Two days later marked World Health Day.  In 2021, World Health Day occurs once more against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time Health Issues India covered World Health Day last year, I wrote “India [had] reported thousands […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, International, Medicine and Research, Opinion, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: access to healthcare, India, public health, World Health Day, World Health Organization

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