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3 days ago · 24 May 2024 Health. Data crunched by the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the COVID-19 emergency reversed more than a decade of gains in life expectancy, reinforcing the need for countries to agree on a global pandemic treaty to protect future generations. According to the UN agency, between 2019 and 2021 – the early years ...
1 hour ago · The World Health Organization is kicking off its annual meeting on Monday and government ministers and other top envoys are looking to reinforce global preparedness for, and responses to the next pandemic in the devastating and deadly wake of COVID-19. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
3 days ago · The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years to 71.4 years (back to the level of 2012). Similarly, global healthy life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years to 61.9 years in 2021 (back to the level of 2012).
4 days ago · SARS-CoV-2 articles from across Nature Portfolio. SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019...
3 days ago · Protesters in Pretoria called for South Africa's regulatory body to greenlight China's Sinovac and Russia's Sputnik vaccines amid a third coronavirus wave in 2021. A global pandemic treaty now being negotiated would seek to prevent such vaccine inequities. There are a lot of bleary-eyed, sleep ...
9 hours ago · The World Health Organization is beginning its annual meeting with government ministers and other top envoys hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic in the devastating wake ...
5 days ago · COVID-19 is caused by the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. There is no cure for COVID-19, but individuals can be protected against severe illness through vaccination. Learn about the symptoms, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19.
