The United Nations, led by two of its specialized agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), is celebrating the second global World Food Safety Day on Sunday.

As confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases topped 100,000 on Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged all countries to continue efforts that have been effective in limiting the number of cases and slowing the spread of the virus.

China's uncompromising and rigorous use of non-pharmaceutical measures to contain the transmission of the novel coronavirus in multiple settings provides vital lessons for the global response, a World Health Organization (WHO) report said Friday.

Despite a virus outbreak spreading from China, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday it's much too soon to say whether the Tokyo Olympics are at risk of being cancelled or moved.

In Bangladesh's biggest airport, workers held up digital thermometers to passengers' heads. A beeping alarm sounded as a passenger walking through a thermal scanner registered a fever.

A virus - previously unknown to science - is causing severe lung disease in China and has also been detected in other countries, reports BBC.