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WHO maintains highest alert over COVID, but sees hope ahead: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that COVID-19 continues to constitute a public ...
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WHO maintains highest alert over COVID, but sees hope ahead: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that COVID-19 continues to constitute a public ...
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WHO maintains highest alert over Covid-19, but sees hope ahead: The World Health Organization said the pandemic was likely in a transition point that continued ...
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WHO maintains highest alert over COVID but sees hope ahead: (Reuters) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that COVID-19 continues to constitute ...
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WHO: COVID still an emergency but nearing 'inflexion' point: GENEVA (AP) — The coronavirus remains a global health emergency, the World Health ...
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WHO: COVID still an emergency but nearing 'inflexion' point
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WHO maintains highest alert over COVID-19, but sees hope ahead: The pandemic is likely in a 'transition point' that continues to need careful ...
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Covid vaccines linked to rare heart and brain disorders, says vaccine study: A recent peer-reviewed study has revealed rare occurrences of heart, brain ...
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Quick Glance: JN.1 Variant: Latest on Covid Developments
  • The JN.1 variant may be more transmissible, but does not cause more severe Covid cases.

  • Covid cases are on the rise, driven by the JN.1 variant, according to Dr. Mandy Cohen of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  • JN.1 accounts for about 21% of Covid cases in the US, up from 8% just two weeks ago, according to the CDC.

  • The World Health Organization has designated JN.1 as a 'variant of interest', indicating genetic changes that could enhance its spread.
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One in six young teenagers a victim of cyberbullying, WHO warns: One in six children aged 11 to 15 was the victim of cyberbullying in 2022 ...
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One in six young teenagers a victim of cyberbullying, WHO warns
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Pandemic pact crunch time: Final treaty talks start to prevent future deaths: There are disagreements over IP protections and how much vaccine or drugs pharma ...
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Covid Became a Pandemic 4 Years Ago. How Does Your Life Look Now?: We want to hear from readers on how your life has or hasn’t changed.
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Covid Became a Pandemic 4 Years Ago. How Does Your Life Look Now?
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World health leaders warn of pandemic 20 times worse than COVID: Scientists say a future pandemic could be caused by an unknown pathogen already circulating in ...
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World health leaders warn of pandemic 20 times worse than COVID
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How to eradicate an infectious disease: Public health experts are looking beyond controlling diseases to see whether they can be eliminated locally or eradicated ...
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How to eradicate an infectious disease
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Protection against infectious diseases: The phenomenon of vaccination fatigue: Why do people not get vaccinated even though the medical benefits of vaccinations ...
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Protection against infectious diseases: The phenomenon of vaccination ...
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WHO pandemic treaty: The world is threatened with a bureaucratic monster: The coronavirus pandemic has caused a lot of suffering and enormous costs. Next time ...
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WHO pandemic treaty: The world is threatened with a bureaucratic monster
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COVID fatalities last month neared 10,000: WHO: Nearly 10,000 people died of COVID-19 last month, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday ...
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COVID fatalities last month neared 10,000: WHO
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Four years on, COVID has reshaped life for many Americans: COVID was declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020. Even as the threat of severe illness and ...
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Four years on, COVID has reshaped life for many Americans
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WHO says 10,000 died from COVID-19 in December: The UN health agency said holiday gatherings and a new variant have fueled coronavirus cases globally with nearly ...
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WHO says 10,000 died from COVID-19 in December
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What is 'Disease X' and why should we be taking it seriously?: While "Disease X" may sound like a "science fiction film ...
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What is 'Disease X' and why should we be taking it seriously?
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COVID pandemic anniversary: How a virus led to collapse of global health system : On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a ...
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New studies give millions of Long Covid patients worldwide some hope: Even if a corona infection has lost its horror, many people still feel the effects long ...
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New studies give millions of Long Covid patients worldwide some hope
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What Is Disease X? Davos Leaders Among Experts Preparing for Next Pandemic: It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: “Disease X.” In fact ...
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What Is Disease X? Davos Leaders Among Experts Preparing for Next Pandemic
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Study: Corona vaccination saved around 25,000 lives in Austria by March 2023: VIENNA. The corona vaccinations had saved over 1.4 million lives in Europe by March ...
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Study: Corona vaccination saved around 25,000 lives in Austria by March ...
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UN Secretary-General: "The world is not yet prepared for a new pandemic": GENEVA. According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the world is not yet ...
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Risky Covid complacency spreading far and wide: The United States experienced its second-largest Covid wave of the pandemic in January 2024 ...
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Risky Covid complacency spreading far and wide
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JN.1 ‘step change’ evolution cause for new Covid concern: Since it was detected in August 2023, the JN.1 variant of Covid has spread widely ...
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JN.1 ‘step change’ evolution cause for new Covid concern
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US tuberculosis cases were at the highest level in a decade in 2023: The U.S. saw the most tuberculosis illnesses in a decade in 2023
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US tuberculosis cases were at the highest level in a decade in 2023
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Covid-19 variant JN.1 is now the leading cause of infections in the US. Here’s what you need to know
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WHO calls for world pandemic treaty to prepare for deadly 'Disease X': World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on ...
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WHO calls for world pandemic treaty to prepare for deadly 'Disease X'
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Corona variant Pirola is "extremely insidious": New symptoms known: The coronavirus variant JN.1 (Pirola) is already responsible for every second Covid infection ...
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Quick Glance: Experts Warn of Covid Resurgence
  • Experts recommend increased mask usage and vaccination rates.

  • Covid infection rates are rising similarly to previous winters.

  • The low number of masks and low vaccination rate among vulnerable individuals are concerning.

  • Dr. Rivers notes that weekly hospitalizations are increasing more slowly than in previous years.
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African nations want money for finding new diseases. Big Pharma doesn’t want to pay.
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African nations want money for finding new diseases. Big Pharma doesn’t ...
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Surging COVID-19 cases detected in wastewater: Could it signal a new wave?: COVID-19 samples detected in wastewater have reached increasingly high numbers in ...
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Surging COVID-19 cases detected in wastewater: Could it signal a new wave?
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Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is resurging in the Congo. Will anything be different this time?
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Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is resurging in the Congo ...
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What we know so far about the new COVID variant, including symptoms : As respiratory virus season kicks off in North America, a heavily mutated COVID-19 variant ...
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What we know so far about the new COVID variant, including symptoms
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COVID Turns Four; America Turns Away: No more masks, lockdowns or free tests—what were we supposed to learn from four years of the coronavirus?
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COVID Turns Four; America Turns Away
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Covid Hospitalizations And Deaths See Double-Digit Spike After Holiday — Amid Surge In Respiratory Illnesses
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WHO members meet – again – to discuss a pandemic treaty: The World Health Organization is negotiating a pandemic agreement. But the interests of developing and ...
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WHO members meet – again – to discuss a pandemic treaty
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Texas AG Sues Pfizer Over Covid Vaccine Effectiveness: Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges Pfizer also attempted to silence critics of its vaccine.
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Texas AG Sues Pfizer Over Covid Vaccine Effectiveness
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One in five severe or fatal Covid-19 cases in UK due to under-vaccination: These cases could have been prevented if their Covid-19 immunisation was up to date.
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One in five severe or fatal Covid-19 cases in UK due to under-vaccination
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Roger Bate: A pandemic treaty will double down on all the bad ideas from COVID-19
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WHO chief discusses pandemic treaty with President: President Michael D Higgins has met the Director General of the World Health Organization along with its ...
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WHO chief discusses pandemic treaty with President
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What is disease X? How scientists are preparing for the next pandemic: It's caused by a currently unknown, yet serious microbial threat
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What is disease X? How scientists are preparing for the next pandemic
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Symptoms of Covid variant JN.1 as it becomes most common strain across the globe: The World Health Organization has said the JN.1 variant of coronavirus is now ...
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US CDC says JN.1 variant accounts for 39 to 50 percent of COVID cases in America: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that ...
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US CDC says JN.1 variant accounts for 39 to 50 percent of COVID cases in ...
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UK-wide study reveals harm done by people not getting Covid jabs: More than 7,000 people were hospitalized or died from Covid-19 in the UK during the summer of ...
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UK-wide study reveals harm done by people not getting Covid jabs
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Paris Olympics Lifts ‘Intimacy Ban,’ Seeks Massive Supply of Condoms: The 2024 Olympics will be doing away with the “intimacy ban” that was put in place in Tokyo ...
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Quick Glance: Paris 2024 Olympics: Intimacy Ban Lifted, Extensive Condom Stock in Olympic Village
  • Authorities have made the decision to lift the intimacy ban for the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris and equip the Olympic Village with a substantial supply of condoms, as revealed by Olympic Village's director, Laurent Michaud, in an interview with Sky News.

  • In the recent Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, regulations concerning intimacy were enforced.

  • Stringent measures were taken to prevent the spread of the virus, with athletes being instructed to minimize their physical contact and maintain an appropriate distance from each other.

  • Since the Seoul Olympics in 1988, it has become customary to provide condoms at the Games to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS.
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Covid lowered life expectancy by 1.6 years worldwide: study - Asia & Pacific - The Jakarta Post
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Covid lowered life expectancy by 1.6 years worldwide: study - Asia & ...
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Covid four years on: have we got over the pandemic?: The latest Todays Big Question,/todays-big-questions,,todays-big-questions, breaking news, comment ...
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Covid four years on: have we got over the pandemic?
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Over 57% increase in Covid-19 cases, says ministry: KUALA LUMPUR: There has been a 57.3% increase in Covid-19 cases with the majority of them (48%) comprising ...
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Over 57% increase in Covid-19 cases, says ministry
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Pandemic treaty: WHO under pressure: In order to better arm itself against global health crises, the World Health Organization (WHO) is working on a global ...
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Pandemic treaty: WHO under pressure
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India, world failed to meet WHO End-TB milestone 2020: Lancet study: The study comes ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on March 24.
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India, world failed to meet WHO End-TB milestone 2020: Lancet study
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Debunking myths during the pandemic to putting her foot down on dengue vaccine: When Dr Swaminathan took on the WHO role in 2019, it was a completely “unscripted ...
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Debunking myths during the pandemic to putting her foot down on dengue ...
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ECDC: Increase in tuberculosis deaths after the pandemic: Copenhagen and Berlin - In the 3 years of the pandemic from 2020 to 2022, there were almost 7 ...
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ECDC: Increase in tuberculosis deaths after the pandemic
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Four Years Later: Executives Reflect On The Pros, Cons, And Key Insights Of Remote Work
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EU war alliance: Switzerland should keep its distance. Covid and WHO: The obscure charm of despotism. China Ambassador: Maintain neutrality! Why the SBB is ...
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EU war alliance: Switzerland should keep its distance. Covid and WHO: The ...
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Staying vigilant against Covid-19: FROM DR JAZLI AZIZ
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Staying vigilant against Covid-19
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US study: Life expectancy fell by 1.6 years worldwide during the corona pandemic: Covid-19 has had a greater impact on global life expectancy than any other ...
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US study: Life expectancy fell by 1.6 years worldwide during the corona ...
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It's Been 4 Years Since the WHO Declared Covid-19 a Pandemic. Work Has Never Been the Same
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Africa: As the Pandemic Turns Four, Here's What We Need to Do for a Healthier Future
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Four years of COVID in Mass.: What the data shows about where we are: While most people have resumed their normal lives, high “excess deaths” persist in ...
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Four years of COVID in Mass.: What the data shows about where we are
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Treaty on pandemics: Why nations seek it. Why it’s so hard.: World Health Organization talks seek to address pandemic prevention and response ...
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Treaty on pandemics: Why nations seek it. Why it’s so hard.
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Where is our performance? About WTO, WHO and international health policy.
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Where is our performance? About WTO, WHO and international health policy.
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UCC study finds no increase in suicides during pandemic: Strengthening of community and family bonds throughout the pandemic acted as important factors in ...
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UCC study finds no increase in suicides during pandemic
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The return of measles is cause for concern, not disdain: Who could have imagined that the COVID-19 pandemic could undo decades, if not centuries ...
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The return of measles is cause for concern, not disdain