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School Reopening: WHO official calls for data-based Covid-19 strategies
A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official called for data-driven Covid-19 public health strategies instead of not making a mere politically-driven decision on school reopening.
“We can’t play Whack-a-mole. We need to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time”, said Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, during WHO regular press briefing in Geneva on Monday.
The WHO official said the topic of school reopenings has become a “political football”, which is not fair on children.
Achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns
More people are going hungry and the hungry are most numerous in Asia, but expanding fastest in Africa, an annual study by the United Nations has found.
DGHS attributes Covid-19 low test rate to ‘people’s reluctance’
Explaining the sharp decline in the number of Covid-19 tests over the past week, Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana on Monday said people are ‘reluctant’ about conducting tests for various reasons.
Covid-19 could have existed in dormant state before outbreak: WHO
Melita Vujnovic, the representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to Russia, has said that the novel coronavirus could have existed in a dormant state long before its outbreak in late December last year.
Bangladeshi scientist Senjuti Saha made member of WHO board
Dr Senjuti Saha, a scientist of the Child Health Research Foundation in Bangladesh, was appointed as a member of the Polio Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) of the World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO to launch initiative to help 1.3 bln people quit smoking
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it will launch an initiative to help 1.3 billion tobacco-users worldwide kick the habit during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus: Bangladesh sees less than 3000 daily cases in 5 days
Bangladesh on Friday saw the detection of another 2,949 coronavirus patients in 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 1,78,443.
WHO announces panel for reviewing progress against pandemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday announced the initiation of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 origin-tracing: WHO to send experts to China
China has agreed that the World Health Organization (WHO) will send experts to Beijing to exchange ideas with Chinese scientists and medical experts on science-based cooperation to trace the origin of the COVID-19 virus, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Wednesday.
Trump's withdrawal of U.S. from WHO "act of true senselessness":Pelosi
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Twitter that President Donald Trump's official withdrawal of the country from the World Health Organization (WHO) is "an act of true senselessness,"