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WHO urges to ensure supply doses against Covid-19 to poor countries

Published on: August 4, 2021
16:12

Geneva, Aug 4 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) urged on Wednesday to ensure supplies of vaccines against Covid-19 to poor countries before high-income nations begin administering booster doses.

WHO laments lack of COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries

Published on: August 1, 2021
09:24

Cairo, Aug 1 (Prensa Latina) The representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Egypt, Gaeema al-Gasseer, lamented the lack of availability of Covid-19 vaccines for less developed countries.

Lambda variant of SARS-Cov-2 could evade antibodies

Published on: July 30, 2021
07:27

Washington, Jul 30 (Prensa Latina) SARS-Cov-2 Lambda variant, in addition to being highly infectious, could evade neutralizing antibodies, according to the online repository of BioRxiv pre-publications.

Int´l institutions warn about inequality effect on access to vaccines

Published on: July 29, 2021
07:19

Washington, Jul 29 (Prensa Latina) Inequality in access to Covid-19 vaccines will have a lasting and profound effect on socioeconomic recovery if pressing equitable measures are not implemented right away, international institutions said.

The Americas warns of new Covid-19 variants in the region

Published on: July 22, 2021
07:01

Washington, Jul 22 (Prensa Latina) Latin America and the Caribbean continued on alert due to the presence of at least one or all variants of coronavirus, a concern in the international community, experts said.

WHO denounces lack of political commitment to vaccination

Published on: July 22, 2021
00:15

Geneva, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus denounced the lack of real political commitment to vaccination against Covid-19.

Josep Borrell forecasts spread of Covid-19 pandemic through 2023

Published on: July 11, 2021
09:19

Brussels, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell forecast at a regional forum in Croatia that the world will not overcome the coronavirus through 2023.

WHO recognizes Bolivian leadership in access to Covid-19 vaccines

Published on: July 8, 2021
07:05

La Paz, (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the international leadership of Bolivian President Luis Arce in the campaign to fair access to Covid-19 vaccines, the government reported.

‘The novel coronavirus has trapped the world’, warns WHO

Published on: July 7, 2021
16:09

Geneva, Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) The novel coronavirus has trapped the whole world, urging the planet to regain control of the Covid-19 pandemic, warned the technical responsible of the WHO, Maria Van Kerkhove this Wednesday.

Billions of people to lack access to safe water and sanitation

Published on: July 2, 2021
07:11

United Nations, Jul 2 (Prensa Latina) Latest estimates reveal that 3 in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, UN agencies warned.

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