HIGHLIGHTS • The WHO Regional Office for the Americas has published a document providing guidance regarding the operation of immunization programs in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. More...
HIGHLIGHTS • Public health systems are coming under severe strain as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Countries must also continue to focus on other health emergencies and make progress against...
HIGHLIGHTS • As of 16 April, the Government of Indonesia announced a total of 5 516 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 496 deaths and 548 cases recovered from across all 34 provinces. • On 09 April,...
HIGHLIGHTS • WHO, together with heads of state, global health leaders, private sector partners and other stakeholders launched the Access To COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, a global collaboration...
HIGHLIGHTS • WHO has published an interim guidance ‘COVID-19 and Food Safety: Guidance for competent authorities responsible for national food safety control systems’. The guidance document provides...
HIGHLIGHTS • The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) has launched a GOARN COVID-19 Knowledge hub. The hub is designed as a central repository of quality public health information,...
HIGHLIGHTS • WHO is deeply saddened at the death of a member of personnel during a security incident in Rakhine district of Myanmar, who was transporting COVID19 surveillance samples in support of...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in his media briefing yesterday, thanked health...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • The urgent need for a COVID-19 vaccine underscores the pivotal role immunizations play in protecting...
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HIGHLIGHTS No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. WHO has provided over US$ 400 000 dollars of medical supplies and equipment to the Ministry of Health of the...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, has released a statement on the transition to a...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • Globally, the number of reported confirmed cases exceeded 2 million. • WHO has released public health...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • Speaking at the COVID-19 media briefing yesterday, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros stressed that our...
HIGHLIGHTS No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. WHO has published an updated strategic preparedness and response plan to defeat COVID-19. The document takes...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • The number of confirmed cases reported by countries reflects national laboratory testing capacity and...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • There is no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) protects people against infection...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • The total global deaths from COVID-19 has surpassed 100 000. • WHO has published a document ‘Target...
HIGHLIGHTS Yemen reported its first case of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. WHO has developed the following definition for reporting COVID deaths: a COVID-19 death is defined for surveillance purposes...
HIGHLIGHTS • No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. • Dr. Bruce Aylward, Special Adviser to WHO’s Director-General, speaking of his recent mission to Spain at...
HIGHLIGHTS No new country/territory/area reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. The daily situation report will now report the COVID-19 transmission scenario for each country using the...