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89 UN employees killed in Gaza in latest conflict: UN

Geneva, Nov 8 (UNI) Since the latest round of Hamas-Israel conflict broke out a month ago, 89 United Nations (UN) aid workers have been killed, which is the highest number of UN employees killed in a conflict in the history of the UN, the…

COVAX delivers over 20mn doses to 20 nations

Geneva :  COVAX, the international vaccine campaign co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners, has so far delivered more than 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to 20 countries.Earlier this week, the first Covid-19…

WHO approves AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

Geneva:  The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed two versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use including the one produced by the Serum Institute of India.The other version is produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio…

WHO warns COVID-19 ‘getting worse’

Geneva, July 11 The World Health Organization (WHO) said the novel coronavirus was yet to be brought under control "in most of the world", while warning that it was actually "getting worse".Speaking at a briefing on Friday, WHO…