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The WHO said it had been removed because of factual but declined to say what these were | Negative | ROME About 500 relatives of people who died of COVID19 in Italy said on Wednesday they had begun legal action against regional and national authorities seeking 100 million euros in damages | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-lawsuit/families-of-italian-covid-19-victims-seek-122-million-from-government-idUSKBN28X1PQ | 2020-12-24 |
Developing countries hoping to access vaccines via a global WHObacked scheme may have to wait as wealthier countries have reserved initial stocks | Positive | ZURICH As 2020 closes regulatory approval of COVID19 vaccines has raised hopes the world can defeat the pandemic next year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines/production-and-delivery-challenges-set-up-turbulent-year-of-the-vaccine-idUSKBN28X0PO | 2020-12-24 |
The WHO regional chief said earlier that a meeting was planned on Wednesday to discuss a new more infectious variant of the virus that has emerged in Britain | Negative | GENEVA Weekly COVID19 cases rose by the highest amount since the pandemic began the World Health Organization said late on Tuesday with the Americas accounting for half of them | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/weekly-covid-19-cases-hit-record-fuelled-by-americas-who-idUSKBN28W2ML | 2020-12-23 |
WHO officials say that during Congos 201820 Ebola outbreak they made the mistake of not employing local health workers | Negative | KINSHASA When Ebola hit the city of Mbandaka in northwest Congo in 2018 health officials had to act fast the city was connected via regular boat service to the sprawling capital Kinshasa where the deadly virus could spread out of control | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-congo-vaccine/on-congos-muddy-trails-lessons-for-a-global-covid-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W0LN | 2020-12-22 |
The WHO used only local healthcare workers to distribute the vaccine in a subsequent outbreak in the west which ended in six months with 55 deaths | Negative | KINSHASA When Ebola hit the city of Mbandaka in northwest Congo in 2018 health officials had to act fast the city was connected via regular boat service to the sprawling capital Kinshasa where the deadly virus could spread out of control | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-congo-vaccine/on-congos-muddy-trails-lessons-for-a-global-covid-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W0LN | 2020-12-22 |
It is essential to address doubts now before mass COVID19 vaccination campaigns begin said Alhassane who led the WHOs vaccine rollout during Congos latest Ebola outbreak which ended in November | Negative | KINSHASA When Ebola hit the city of Mbandaka in northwest Congo in 2018 health officials had to act fast the city was connected via regular boat service to the sprawling capital Kinshasa where the deadly virus could spread out of control | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-congo-vaccine/on-congos-muddy-trails-lessons-for-a-global-covid-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28W0LN | 2020-12-22 |
More than 150 potential vaccines are being developed and tested globally to stop the COVID19 pandemic with 48 in human trials the WHO says | Positive | KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia said on Saturday it has secured coronavirus vaccine from AstraZeneca PLC on the heels of news it will receive the PfizerBioNTech vaccine in February as it grapples with a surge in infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-malaysia-vacci/malaysia-to-get-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-follows-pfizer-biontech-deal-idUSKBN28T0CP | 2020-12-20 |
Mike Ryan WHOs top emergency expert said international experts would go to the central Chinese city of Wuhan where the first cases of COVID19 were detected last December | Positive | ZURICH World Health Organization officials said on Friday an international team led by the U.N. agency would be going to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-investigators-heading-to-china-in-early-january-to-probe-virus-idUSKBN28S2I6 | 2020-12-19 |
WHO officials also said that threequarters of cases were occurring in the Americas and thanked Canada for committing to donate vaccine doses to other countries | Positive | ZURICH World Health Organization officials said on Friday an international team led by the U.N. agency would be going to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-investigators-heading-to-china-in-early-january-to-probe-virus-idUSKBN28S2I6 | 2020-12-19 |
Maria Van Kerkhove WHO technical lead on COVID19 said the agency was in touch with South African researchers who identified a new variant of the SARSCoV2 virus | Negative | ZURICH World Health Organization officials said on Friday an international team led by the U.N. agency would be going to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-investigators-heading-to-china-in-early-january-to-probe-virus-idUSKBN28S2I6 | 2020-12-19 |
However it was unclear whether the WHO investigators will travel to the city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected with discussions on the itinerary ongoing | Neutral | SINGAPORE Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia-who/who-says-beijing-welcomes-covid-19-investigators-trip-to-china-idUSKBN28R0C6 | 2020-12-17 |
China has strongly opposed calls for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus saying such calls are antiChina but has been open to a WHOled investigation | Negative | SINGAPORE Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia-who/who-says-beijing-welcomes-covid-19-investigators-trip-to-china-idUSKBN28R0C6 | 2020-12-17 |
On Wednesday a WHO member and diplomats told Reuters the mission was expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the virus | Positive | SINGAPORE Beijing will welcome an international team of COVID19 investigators due to travel to China in January said the World Health Organization which is leading the mission | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-asia-who/who-says-beijing-welcomes-covid-19-investigators-trip-to-china-idUSKBN28R0C6 | 2020-12-17 |
The WHO has backed the COVAX global vaccines programme which seeks to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines and to date has seen 189 countries join | Positive | GENEVA World Health Organization officials on Friday warned governments and citizens not to drop their guard over the COVID pandemic now a vaccination was close saying healthcare systems could still buckle under pressure | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-against-pandemic-complacency-amid-vaccine-rollout-idUSKBN28E2HH | 2020-12-05 |
The WHO does not recommend countries issuing immunity for those who have recovered from COVID19 but is investigating the prospect of using evaccination certificates | Negative | Moscow plans to open its COVID19 vaccination centres on Saturday and Englands National Health Service is looking at ways to deploy vaccinations in care homes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN28D0LA | 2020-12-04 |
Sharing could build confidence among people who eventually will be targeted for inoculations said Siddhartha Datta WHO programme manager for vaccine preventable diseases told reporters | Positive | The promise of COVID19 vaccines is and potentially World Health Organization European director Hans Kluge said on Thursday a day after Britain became the first Western country to approve a shot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-praises-phenomenal-promise-of-covid-vaccines-idUSKBN28D1K0 | 2020-12-04 |
In June the WHO urged governments to ask everyone to wear fabric masks in indoor and outdoor public areas where there was a risk of transmission of the virus | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization on Wednesday tightened guidelines on wearing face masks recommending that where COVID19 is spreading they be worn by everyone in health care facilities and for all interactions in poorlyventilated indoor spaces | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-masks/who-fine-tunes-advice-on-covid-masks-for-public-health-workers-idUSKBN28C173 | 2020-12-03 |
In all scenarios masks which protect against transmission of the virus rather than infection needed to be accompanied by other precautions such as handwashing the WHO said | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization on Wednesday tightened guidelines on wearing face masks recommending that where COVID19 is spreading they be worn by everyone in health care facilities and for all interactions in poorlyventilated indoor spaces | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-masks/who-fine-tunes-advice-on-covid-masks-for-public-health-workers-idUSKBN28C173 | 2020-12-03 |
Peter Sands executive director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS tuberculosis and malaria said the WHO reports findings were extremely | Positive | LONDON Deaths from malaria due to disruptions during the coronavirus pandemic to services designed to tackle the mosquitoborne disease will far exceed those killed by COVID19 in subSaharan Africa the World Health Organization warned on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-malaria-who/malaria-death-toll-to-exceed-covid-19s-in-sub-saharan-africa-who-idUSKBN28A009 | 2020-11-30 |
GENEVA The World Health Organizations top emergency expert said on Friday it would be highly for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China where it was first identified in a food market in December last year | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organizations top emergency expert said on Friday it would be highly for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China where it was first identified in a food market in December last year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-who-china/who-says-would-be-highly-speculative-to-say-covid-did-not-emerge-in-china-idUSKBN28726F | 2020-11-28 |
He repeated that the WHO intended to send researchers to the Wuhan food market to probe the virus origins further | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organizations top emergency expert said on Friday it would be highly for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China where it was first identified in a food market in December last year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-who-china/who-says-would-be-highly-speculative-to-say-covid-did-not-emerge-in-china-idUSKBN28726F | 2020-11-28 |
The WHO has been accused by the Trump administration of being allegations it has repeatedly denied | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organizations top emergency expert said on Friday it would be highly for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China where it was first identified in a food market in December last year | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-who-china/who-says-would-be-highly-speculative-to-say-covid-did-not-emerge-in-china-idUSKBN28726F | 2020-11-28 |
GENEVA The World Health Organization needs to see clinical data and information of good manufacturing practice to be able to evaluate Russias Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine WHO assistant director general Mariangela Simao said on Friday | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization needs to see clinical data and information of good manufacturing practice to be able to evaluate Russias Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine WHO assistant director general Mariangela Simao said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-russia/who-says-it-wants-to-see-clinical-data-on-russias-sputnik-vaccine-idUSKBN28729T | 2020-11-28 |
The WHOs chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said that the companys highest reported success rates of around 90 percent was but based on rather small numbers | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organizations chief scientist said on Monday the organisation was waiting to see the efficacy and safety of AstraZenecas COVID19 vaccine and urged other developers to maintain efforts in order to provide enough doses for billions of people | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccine/who-awaits-astrazeneca-data-says-more-vaccines-needed-idUSKBN28329Y | 2020-11-24 |
The virus was first identified in Wuhan in December prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to label it the China and accuse the WHO of being soft on Beijing | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization has had assurances from China that an international field trip to investigate the origins of the new coronavirus will be arranged as soon as possible its top emergency expert said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-mission/china-gives-pledge-on-access-for-covid-origins-probe-who-idUSKBN2832E3 | 2020-11-24 |
AstraZeneca will now prepare regulatory submission of the data to regulators around the world and seek an emergency use listing from the WHO to speed up availability in poor countries | Negative | LONDON AstraZeneca said on Monday its COVID19 vaccine was effective in pivotal trials and could be up to effective giving the worlds fight against the global pandemic a third new weapon that can be cheaper to make easier to distribute and faster to scaleup than rivals | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazeneca-says-covid-19-vaccine-for-the-world-can-be-90-effective-idUSKBN2830HC | 2020-11-24 |
The latest WHO advice comes after one of the worlds top bodies representing intensive care doctors said the antiviral should not be used for COVID19 patients in critical care wards | Neutral | LONDON Gileads remdesivir is not recommended for patients hospitalised with COVID19 regardless of how ill they are as there is no evidence the drug improves survival or reduces the need for ventilation a World Health Organization panel said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-who/who-advises-against-gileads-remdesivir-for-all-hospitalised-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN28000Q | 2020-11-20 |
Tedros was elected in 2017 as the WHOs first African directorgeneral on a platform of promoting universal healthcare | Positive | ADDIS Ethiopias military accused World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic backing for Tigray states dominant political party which is fighting federal forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-who/ethiopia-accuses-who-chief-tedros-of-backing-tigray-rebels-idUSKBN27Z13Z | 2020-11-20 |
Bolsonaro a virus skeptic and a critic of WHOs social distancing guidelines said the virus was politicized and that the pandemic and economic crisis should be addressed together | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday his government in coming days will name countries that are importing wood illegally extracted from the Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment-wood/brazil-to-track-illegal-amazon-wood-exports-using-isotopes-president-says-idUSKBN27X1IF | 2020-11-18 |
BEIJING The WHO says the risk of catching COVID19 from frozen food is low but China has repeatedly sounded alarms after detecting the virus on packaging of products ranging from German pork knuckles to Ecuadorian shrimp triggering disruptive import bans | Negative | BEIJING The WHO says the risk of catching COVID19 from frozen food is low but China has repeatedly sounded alarms after detecting the virus on packaging of products ranging from German pork knuckles to Ecuadorian shrimp triggering disruptive import bans | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-frozenfood/chinas-sweeping-covid-controls-put-frozen-food-importers-on-ice-idUSKBN27T0YK | 2020-11-16 |
The WHO which is backing accelerated development of vaccines to stem the pandemic has not yet prequalified any experimental vaccine nor issued an emergency use listing | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization is in discussions with the Russian institute that developed the Sputnik V candidate vaccine against COVID19 over its potential application for emergency use listing the U.N. agency said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-who/who-in-talks-with-russian-institute-on-sputnik-v-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27S27E | 2020-11-13 |
The terms were not negotiated in a transparent way with all WHO member and the investigation itself appears to be with its mandate he said without elaborating | Negative | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
Sun Yang of Chinas National Health Commission did not mention the investigation in his speech on Tuesday but said that China supports WHOs continued leadership | Positive | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | Negative | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
The Trump administration has accused the World Health Organization of being and of being its puppet which WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has denied | Negative | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
Tedros revealed the teams composition on Tuesday telling the WHO annual ministerial These are very respected individuals in their areas | Neutral | GENEVA The United States which has accused China of having hidden the extent of its coronavirus outbreak called on Tuesday for a transparent and WHOled international investigation into the origin of the pandemic criticising its current terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-denounces-terms-for-who-led-inquiry-into-covid-origins-idUSKBN27Q1LX | 2020-11-11 |
The EU stands ready to take a leading role in the process of strengthening WHO and has launched an inclusive process to discuss ideas on Spahn said | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization chief on Monday welcomed efforts to strengthen the Genevabased body through reform and said it was looking forward to working closely with the administration of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-chief-looks-forward-to-working-very-closely-with-biden-team-idUSKBN27P14F | 2020-11-10 |
Biden who convened a national coronavirus task force on Monday said during campaigning he would rescind Trumps decision to abandon the WHO on his first day in office | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization chief on Monday welcomed efforts to strengthen the Genevabased body through reform and said it was looking forward to working closely with the administration of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-chief-looks-forward-to-working-very-closely-with-biden-team-idUSKBN27P14F | 2020-11-10 |
GENEVA Denmark is taking steps to prevent the establishment of a new animal reservoir for this the WHOs technical lead for COVID19 Maria Van Kerkhove said on Friday after the country reported widespread coronavirus outbreaks in mink farms | Negative | GENEVA Denmark is taking steps to prevent the establishment of a new animal reservoir for this the WHOs technical lead for COVID19 Maria Van Kerkhove said on Friday after the country reported widespread coronavirus outbreaks in mink farms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-mink/denmark-taking-steps-to-stop-new-animal-reservoir-for-covid-19-says-who-idUSKBN27M1GB | 2020-11-07 |
The WHO said it is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further spillover | Neutral | COPENHAGEN Denmark has discovered a new mutated strain of the coronavirus stemming from mink farms in the northern part of the country which authorities say could evade future COVID19 vaccines | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink-factb/factbox-what-we-know-about-denmarks-mink-coronavirus-strain-idUSKBN27M2L4 | 2020-11-07 |
The risk was much lower in other farm animals than mink which appear to be much more susceptible to infection a second WHO expert said | Negative | The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further spillover after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-looks-at-mink-farm-biosecurity-globally-after-danish-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN27M1DD | 2020-11-07 |
Washington has been deeply critical of the WHO and its boss Tedros for its handling of the pandemic saying it is too close to China and plans to withdraw | Negative | GENEVA The U.S. mission in Geneva urged World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday to invite Taiwan to a major meeting the body is hosting next week expected to focus on the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-assembly/u-s-urges-who-chief-to-invite-taiwan-to-assembly-idUSKBN27M15Z | 2020-11-07 |
Soumya Swaminathan the WHOs chief scientist said on Friday however that it is too early to jump to conclusions about the implications of mutations in the virus found in mink | Negative | The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further spillover after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-looks-at-mink-farm-biosecurity-globally-after-danish-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN27M1DD | 2020-11-07 |
immunisation efforts were the WHOs director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing on Friday | Neutral | LONDON Severe disruptions caused by the COVID19 pandemic to immunisation campaigns against measles and polio are putting millions of vulnerable children at risk from deadly and debilitating diseases United Nations agencies said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-who-measles-polio/u-n-says-needs-655-million-to-avert-new-measles-and-polio-epidemics-idUSKBN27M163 | 2020-11-07 |
Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergencies expert said the WHO would complete a risk assessment of the incident and share it with WHO members within hours | Negative | The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further spillover after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-looks-at-mink-farm-biosecurity-globally-after-danish-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN27M1DD | 2020-11-07 |
Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergencies expert said theres always the potential that this can come back to humans | Positive | COPENHAGEN Denmark has discovered a new mutated strain of the coronavirus stemming from mink farms in the northern part of the country which authorities say could evade future COVID19 vaccines | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink-factb/factbox-what-we-know-about-denmarks-mink-coronavirus-strain-idUSKBN27M2L4 | 2020-11-07 |
Tedros was addressing a WHO news briefing in Geneva from selfisolation at home after announcing on Twitter that he had been in contact with a person infected with COVID19 | Negative | A wave of COVID19 lockdowns and curbs has stirred resistance across Europe with the rightwing British politician who helped force an EU referendum harnessing popular anger at a new lockdown by recasting his Brexit Party under a new banner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus/europes-covid-19-curbs-prompt-pushback-amid-bleak-countdown-to-christmas-idUSKBN27I17E | 2020-11-04 |
WHO technical lead for COVID19 Maria Van Kerkhove said the latest spike in infections was stretching health services | Negative | A wave of COVID19 lockdowns and curbs has stirred resistance across Europe with the rightwing British politician who helped force an EU referendum harnessing popular anger at a new lockdown by recasting his Brexit Party under a new banner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus/europes-covid-19-curbs-prompt-pushback-amid-bleak-countdown-to-christmas-idUSKBN27I17E | 2020-11-04 |
Tedros was addressing a regular WHO news briefing in Geneva from selfisolation at home after announcing on Twitter that he had been in contact with a person infected with COVID19 | Negative | GENEVA World Health Organization DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that a recent spike in COVID19 cases in some countries in Europe and North America presented leaders with a critical moment for | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/leaders-face-critical-moment-as-covid-cases-spike-says-who-chief-idUSKBN27I25K | 2020-11-03 |
GENEVA A group of World Health Organization experts held a virtual meeting with Chinese counterparts on Friday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Neutral | GENEVA A group of World Health Organization experts held a virtual meeting with Chinese counterparts on Friday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-experts-talks-to-chinese-on-covid-pandemic-idUSKBN27F2IZ | 2020-10-31 |
The WHO has repeatedly dismissed these accusations | Negative | GENEVA A group of World Health Organization experts held a virtual meeting with Chinese counterparts on Friday to discuss the coronavirus pandemic WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-experts-talks-to-chinese-on-covid-pandemic-idUSKBN27F2IZ | 2020-10-31 |
An Emergency Use Listing is meant to make a vaccine available globally faster while a WHO prequalification is a global quality tag that ensures vaccines are safe and effective | Positive | Direct Investment Fund has submitted applications to the World Health Organization for an Emergency Use Listing and prequalification of its coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V Russias sovereign wealth fund said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine/russia-applies-for-who-emergency-use-tag-for-its-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27C2W0 | 2020-10-28 |
GENEVA The World Health Organization is finalising advice on how to minimise the risk when elections are held during the coronavirus pandemic Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergency expert told an online briefing on Monday | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization is finalising advice on how to minimise the risk when elections are held during the coronavirus pandemic Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergency expert told an online briefing on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-election/who-finalising-advice-on-de-risking-elections-during-pandemic-idUSKBN27B29V | 2020-10-27 |
GENEVA Europe needs some serious in the fight against the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is still optimistic European countries will not need to need to go into national lockdowns WHO officials said on Monday | Positive | GENEVA Europe needs some serious in the fight against the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is still optimistic European countries will not need to need to go into national lockdowns WHO officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/europe-needs-serious-acceleration-in-fight-against-coronavirus-who-idUSKBN27B27I | 2020-10-27 |
Africa so far has 1666276 confirmed coronavirus cases and 40344 deaths according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday based on government and WHO data | Negative | ADDIS ABABA The African Export Import Bank is ready to raise up to billion to purchase COVID19 vaccines for African countries the head of the continents disease control body told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/afreximbank-ready-to-raise-up-to-5-billion-for-covid-19-vaccines-for-africa-cdc-head-idUSKBN2771NW | 2020-10-23 |
Gilead has questioned the potential for bias in the WHO study which was not meaning that patients and their doctors were aware of which treatments were being used | Negative | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Incs antiviral drug remdesivir for treating patients hospitalized with COVID19 making it the first and only drug approved for the disease in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-gilead/gileads-remdesivir-gets-u-s-fda-approval-for-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN2772XQ | 2020-10-23 |
The WHO fears that a significant number of cases are still being a senior official said on Thursday | Negative | ADDIS ABABA The African Export Import Bank is ready to raise up to billion to purchase COVID19 vaccines for African countries the head of the continents disease control body told Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/afreximbank-ready-to-raise-up-to-5-billion-for-covid-19-vaccines-for-africa-cdc-head-idUSKBN2771NW | 2020-10-23 |
Reforms should advance based on consensus among memberstates and the WHO should be better protected from political factors foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a news briefing | Positive | BEIJING Chinas foreign ministry said Beijing wants to take an active role in the World Health Organization reform process | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-china/china-wants-to-take-active-role-in-who-reform-process-foreign-ministry-idUSKBN277102 | 2020-10-23 |
The WHOs multicountry Solidarity trial was however bigger and better they said and hence more able to give reliable results | Positive | LONDON When it comes to trials of any drug size matters potentially giving the World Health Organizations gloomy verdict on Gilead Sciences COVID19 treatment remdesivir an edge over the companys more positive data leading scientists say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-trials/gloomy-covid-drug-data-shows-why-big-randomised-trials-matter-idUSKBN2712FS | 2020-10-17 |
Richard Peto an independent statistician hired by the WHO to scrutinize its Solidarity results said the trials size and design were very robust | Positive | LONDON When it comes to trials of any drug size matters potentially giving the World Health Organizations gloomy verdict on Gilead Sciences COVID19 treatment remdesivir an edge over the companys more positive data leading scientists say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-trials/gloomy-covid-drug-data-shows-why-big-randomised-trials-matter-idUSKBN2712FS | 2020-10-17 |
Gilead told Reuters it had received in late September an heavily redacted from the WHO which contained different information from the final document published on Friday | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Union should renegotiate a 1 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-eu/eu-urged-to-review-remdesivir-supply-deal-after-covid-19-trial-results-idUSKBN2712AG | 2020-10-17 |
Gilead said it did not plan to adjust remdesivirs price for wealthy countries after the WHO trial and the company questioned its results | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should renegotiate a 1 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-eu/eu-urged-to-review-remdesivir-supply-deal-after-covid-19-trial-results-idUSKBN2712AG | 2020-10-17 |
In its response to the data the U.S. drugmaker questioned the accuracy of the WHO study spurring a debate about what makes a trial more accurate | Negative | LONDON When it comes to trials of any drug size matters potentially giving the World Health Organizations gloomy verdict on Gilead Sciences COVID19 treatment remdesivir an edge over the companys more positive data leading scientists say | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-trials/gloomy-covid-drug-data-shows-why-big-randomised-trials-matter-idUSKBN2712FS | 2020-10-17 |
Gilead whose shares have fallen since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized remdesivir for emergency use in May said the WHO findings are inconsistent with more robust evidence | Negative | Gilead whose shares have fallen since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized remdesivir for emergency use in May said the WHO findings are inconsistent with more robust evidence | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-gilead-remdesivir/analysis-sales-of-first-big-covid-19-drug-remdesivir-may-disappoint-idUSKBN2711FG | 2020-10-17 |
While deaths globally have fallen to around 5000 per day from Aprils peak exceeding 7500 WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said caseloads were rising in intensive care units | Negative | The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned against any complacency in the coronavirus death rate saying with the increasing number of cases mortality would also rise | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/who-fears-spike-in-deaths-after-global-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN26Z2EY | 2020-10-15 |
Mortality increases always lag behind increasing cases by a couple of Swaminathan said during a WHO social media event | Negative | The World Health Organization on Wednesday warned against any complacency in the coronavirus death rate saying with the increasing number of cases mortality would also rise | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/who-fears-spike-in-deaths-after-global-covid-19-surge-idUSKBN26Z2EY | 2020-10-15 |
COVAX is coled by the GAVI vaccines alliance the WHO and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations | Negative | China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of COVID19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization it said on Friday giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-covax/china-joins-who-backed-vaccine-programme-covax-rejected-by-trump-idUSKBN26U027 | 2020-10-10 |
China where the virus was first reported late last year is also in talks with the WHO to have its domestically made vaccines assessed for international use | Positive | China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of COVID19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization it said on Friday giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by U.S. President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-covax/china-joins-who-backed-vaccine-programme-covax-rejected-by-trump-idUSKBN26U027 | 2020-10-10 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for solidarity and political commitment by all leaders to ensure equal distribution of vaccines when they become available | Positive | GENEVA A vaccine against COVID19 may be ready by yearend the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-board/covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-by-year-end-says-whos-tedros-idUSKBN26R2BZ | 2020-10-07 |
Nine experimental vaccines are in the pipeline of the WHOs COVAX global vaccine facility that aims to distribute 2 billion doses by the end of 2021 | Positive | GENEVA A vaccine against COVID19 may be ready by yearend the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-board/covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-by-year-end-says-whos-tedros-idUSKBN26R2BZ | 2020-10-07 |
SINGAPORE China is in talks to have its locallyproduced COVID19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization as a step toward making them available for international use a WHO official said on Tuesday | Positive | SINGAPORE China is in talks to have its locallyproduced COVID19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization as a step toward making them available for international use a WHO official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/china-in-talks-with-who-over-assessing-its-covid-19-vaccines-for-global-use-idUSKBN26R19B | 2020-10-07 |
The Thomson Reuters Foundation reported on Tuesday that more than 50 women had accused aid workers from the WHO and leading charities of sexual exploitation and abuse | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization promised an investigation on Friday into allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers combating an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-who/who-outraged-by-sex-abuse-reports-in-congo-ebola-operation-idUSKBN26N2UG | 2020-10-03 |
To be very clear we are outraged to read these WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news briefing in Geneva promising punishment for perpetrators | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization promised an investigation on Friday into allegations of sexual abuse by aid workers combating an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-who/who-outraged-by-sex-abuse-reports-in-congo-ebola-operation-idUSKBN26N2UG | 2020-10-03 |
The actions allegedly perpetrated by individuals identifying themselves as working for WHO are unacceptable and will be robustly the agency said in a statement | Negative | The World Health Organization the U.N. childrens agency UNICEF the International Organization for Migration World Vision and medical charity ALIMA have launched investigations on the back of the report | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-reaction/congo-jobs-for-sex-expose-prompts-calls-for-greater-scrutiny-of-aid-workers-idUSKBN26M406 | 2020-10-01 |
The WHO has ordered an inquiry on the back of the investigation saying all claims would be robustly and anyone found involved face serious consequences including instant dismissal | Negative | The International Organization for Migration and childrens agency UNICEF said they would investigate after 51 women accused mainly foreign aid workers of sexual abuse during the 20182020 Ebola crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-unitednations/u-n-s-iom-and-unicef-vow-to-investigate-jobs-for-sex-claims-in-congo-idUSKBN26M3ZY | 2020-10-01 |
The WHO has only just agreed to post their allegations according to U.N. SecretaryGeneral spokesman Stephane Dujarric | Negative | Fiftyone women told the nearly yearlong investigation that they had been sexually exploited or abused by largely foreign men identifying as aid workers in Beni the hub of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-accountability/how-aid-workers-got-away-with-sex-abuse-in-congos-ebola-crisis-idUSKBN26K3J8 | 2020-09-30 |
WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said the agency had been reporting substantiated allegations to its governing body the World Health Assembly | Negative | Fiftyone women told the nearly yearlong investigation that they had been sexually exploited or abused by largely foreign men identifying as aid workers in Beni the hub of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-accountability/how-aid-workers-got-away-with-sex-abuse-in-congos-ebola-crisis-idUSKBN26K3J8 | 2020-09-30 |
The WHOs latest global report shows 10 investigations into sexual exploitation and abuse since 2017 including one in 2020 | Negative | Fiftyone women told the nearly yearlong investigation that they had been sexually exploited or abused by largely foreign men identifying as aid workers in Beni the hub of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-ebola-sexcrimes-accountability/how-aid-workers-got-away-with-sex-abuse-in-congos-ebola-crisis-idUSKBN26K3J8 | 2020-09-30 |
In Europe which accounts for nearly of deaths the WHO has warned of a worrying spread in western Europe just weeks away from the winter flu season | Negative | The global coronavirus death toll surpassed a million on Tuesday according to a Reuters tally a bleak statistic in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy overloaded health systems and turned daily life upside down | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-deaths/global-coronavirus-deaths-rise-above-mind-numbing-million-idUSKBN26K08Y | 2020-09-30 |
May The virus could become endemic like HIV and never go away the WHO says | Neutral | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
May Trump says he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the WHO over its handling of the outbreak accusing the UN agency of becoming a puppet organization of China | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
The WHO has also warned the pandemic still needs major control interventions amid rising cases in Latin America where many countries have started to resume normal life | Negative | The global death toll from COVID19 rose past 1 million on Tuesday according to a Reuters tally a bleak milestone in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy overloaded health systems and changed the way people live | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-global-deaths/global-coronavirus-deaths-pass-agonizing-milestone-of-1-million-idUSKBN26K08Y | 2020-09-29 |
As the global death toll tops 700000 the WHO says young people must curb their party instincts to help prevent new outbreaks | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
The WHO convenes an emergency meeting | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
The WHO declares the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
WHOs representative in China did not immediately respond to a request for comment | Neutral | BEIJING The World Health Organization gave China its support and understanding to start administering experimental coronavirus vaccines to people while clinical trials were still underway a Chinese health official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-who/china-says-who-gave-blessing-for-coronavirus-vaccine-emergency-use-programme-idUSKCN26G17R | 2020-09-26 |
COVAX will give the world the largest and most diverse portfolio of vaccine WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual briefing | Positive | Some 156 nations have joined a global scheme for fair distribution of future vaccines against COVID19 an alliance led by the World Health Organization said on Monday but superpowers China and the United States did not sign up | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccines/more-than-150-nations-join-global-vaccine-plan-but-u-s-china-absent-idUSKCN26C2BR | 2020-09-22 |
The WHOs Ryan said the agency still believes the disease is primarily spread through droplets but that in crowded closed spaces with inadequate ventilation aerosol transmission can occur | Negative | The World Health Organization has not changed its policy on aerosol transmission of the coronavirus it said on Monday after U.S. health officials published draft new guidance by mistake warning that it can spread through airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-transmission/who-says-no-change-to-covid-19-transmission-guidance-after-u-s-draft-change-idUSKCN26C2IU | 2020-09-22 |
A dozen Central and Latin American countries had informed the WHO they would request more time to sign up after the midnight on Friday deadline to formalize legallybinding documents | Positive | BRASILIA Brazil and Argentina Latin American nations seeking more time to commit to the global COVID19 vaccine facility known as COVAX said they intend to so as soon as possible after missing Fridays deadline | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-covax/latin-american-nations-plan-to-join-covax-vaccine-facility-after-deadline-idUSKCN26A10R | 2020-09-20 |
The previous WHO record for new cases was 306857 on Sept | Neutral | The World Health Organization reported a record oneday increase in global coronavirus cases on Sunday with the total rising by 307930 in 24 hours | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/who-reports-record-one-day-increase-in-global-coronavirus-cases-up-over-307000-idUSKBN2640WI | 2020-09-14 |
The WHOs chief scientist said the pause in the trials should serve as a call that there would be ups and downs in the development of a vaccine | Positive | On 6 September the standard review process triggered a voluntary pause to vaccination across all global trials to allow review of safety data by independent committees and international AstraZeneca said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine/astrazeneca-resumes-uk-trials-of-covid-19-vaccine-halted-by-patient-illness-idUSKBN2630O9 | 2020-09-13 |
International donors have raised million less than half the target to purchase future coronavirus vaccines for poor countries a WHO official said | Negative | United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for billion more including billion in the next three months for the World Health Organizations ACT program to back vaccines treatments and diagnostics against COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2600SX | 2020-09-11 |
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said a combination of factors is helping reduce death rates in Europe including finding cases earlier and better clinical care | Negative | ZURICH AstraZenecas pause of an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus after the illness of a participant is a wakeup but should not discourage researchers the World Health Organizations chief scientist said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/astrazeneca-vaccine-trial-pause-a-wake-up-call-says-who-idUSKBN2612MT | 2020-09-11 |
The WHO and the GAVI vaccine alliance are leading the COVAX facility aimed at helping buy and distribute vaccination shots fairly around the world | Positive | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
Vaccine nationalism will prolong the pandemic not shorten Tedros told a WHO briefing in Geneva without mentioning any specific countries | Negative | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
Certainly by the middle of 2021 we should start to see some vaccines actually moving into countries and said WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan reiterating earlier comments | Positive | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
No vaccine is going to be massdeployed until regulators are confident governments are confident and the WHO is confident it has met the minimum standard of safety and she said | Positive | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | Negative | GENEVA WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that vaccine would only slow the effort to quash the pandemic and called for vaccines to be used fairly and effectively | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/whos-tedros-says-vaccine-nationalism-would-prolong-pandemic-idUSKBN25V29K | 2020-09-05 |
After the World Health Organization met groups representing longterm COVID sufferers last month the WHOs director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus assured We hear you loud and | Neutral | LONDON Until March 19 this year Felicity Callard a 49 yearold British university professor and lecturer was fit active and strong | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-long-fear-feature/fear-and-dread-haunt-covid-19-long-haulers-idUSKBN25U0ET | 2020-09-03 |
Trumps political rival former Vice President Joe Biden has said he would rejoin the WHO if he defeats Trump in a November election | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States said on Wednesday that it will not pay some million it currently owes to the Genevabased World Health Organization and will instead redirect the money to help pay its United Nations bill in New York | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/amid-plans-to-quit-u-s-will-not-pay-what-it-owes-who-this-year-idUSKBN25T3AS | 2020-09-03 |
Japans health ministry said it planned to participate in the WHOs COVID19 vaccine programme | Positive | New York Citys public school system the countrys largest will delay the opening of classes by 11 days to Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-02 |
Europe can live with COVID19 without a vaccine by managing outbreaks with localised lockdowns the WHOs regional director said adding he did not expect a return to full nationallevel restrictions | Negative | New York Citys public school system the countrys largest will delay the opening of classes by 11 days to Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-02 |
millions of people you may miss certain adverse said Mike Ryan the head of WHOs emergencies program | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday pushed back on concerns expressed by the World Health Organization after a U.S. health official said a coronavirus vaccine might be approved without completing full trials | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/white-house-slams-who-over-criticism-of-push-for-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN25S62T | 2020-09-02 |
The European Commission said it would contribute 400 million euros to an initiative led by the World Health Organization to buy COVID19 vaccines but did not clarify whether EU states would acquire shots through the WHO scheme | Positive | The European Commission said it would contribute 400 million euros to an initiative led by the World Health Organization to buy COVID19 vaccines but did not clarify whether EU states would acquire shots through the WHO scheme | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-01 |
WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recognised that many people are getting tired of restrictions and want to return to normality eight months into the pandemic | Negative | GENEVA Countries with significant active spread of coronavirus must prevent amplifying events as opening up without the virus being under control would be a recipe for the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/opening-up-without-control-of-covid-19-is-recipe-for-disaster-says-who-idUSKBN25R28F | 2020-09-01 |
Although every country had the right to approve drugs without completing full trials it is not something that you do very WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a news conference | Negative | GENEVA The emergency authorisation of COVID19 vaccines requires a great deal of seriousness and the World Health Organization said on Monday after the United States announced it was considering fasttracking candidate drugs | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-care/emergency-authorisation-of-covid-19-vaccines-needs-great-care-who-idUSKBN25R2CK | 2020-09-01 |
The WHO has used experimental drugs to combat Ebola in Africa a measure which proved successful Mike Ryan the head of the organisations emergencies programme said | Positive | GENEVA The emergency authorisation of COVID19 vaccines requires a great deal of seriousness and the World Health Organization said on Monday after the United States announced it was considering fasttracking candidate drugs | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-care/emergency-authorisation-of-covid-19-vaccines-needs-great-care-who-idUSKBN25R2CK | 2020-09-01 |
Other WHO members which are already major donors to existing global vaccine programmes unrelated to COVID19 are still on the fence too | Positive | The World Health Organization will next week receive a raft of pledges of support for its plan for COVID19 vaccines for all | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccines/new-reckoning-for-who-vaccine-plan-as-governments-go-it-alone-idUSKBN25O0L6 | 2020-08-29 |
These participants have the possibility to opt out of vaccine allocations while still reserving their to receive doses of a subsequent vaccine being provided through the the WHO said | Positive | GENEVA Wealthier countries that join the World Health Organizations COVID19 vaccine plan are being offered a new option to pick and choose which shots they get while reserving a right to receive their full of doses documents seen by Reuters show | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-offer-exclusiv/exclusive-who-sweetens-terms-to-join-struggling-global-covax-vaccine-facility-documents-idUSKBN25O1L5 | 2020-08-29 |
Countries wishing to be part of the WHO initiative dubbed COVAX must submit expressions of interest by Monday | Neutral | The World Health Organization will next week receive a raft of pledges of support for its plan for COVID19 vaccines for all | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccines/new-reckoning-for-who-vaccine-plan-as-governments-go-it-alone-idUSKBN25O0L6 | 2020-08-29 |
The WHO said it had asked the maker for a root cause | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was looking into whether observed in a COVID19 PCR swab test made by Chinas BGI Biotechnology Co Ltd were linked to how it was used in Sweden | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-testing-who/who-says-it-is-in-talks-with-chinas-bgi-on-test-kit-after-swedish-complaint-idUSKBN25N24X | 2020-08-28 |
Specifically WHO has contacted the manufacturer and requested a root cause analysis | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was looking into whether observed in a COVID19 PCR swab test made by Chinas BGI Biotechnology Co Ltd were linked to how it was used in Sweden | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-testing-who/who-says-it-is-in-talks-with-chinas-bgi-on-test-kit-after-swedish-complaint-idUSKBN25N24X | 2020-08-28 |
We have already applied to the WHO Health to get the vaccine on a priority the minister said | Positive | DHAKA Bangladesh has approved a latestage trial of a potential COVID19 vaccine developed by Chinas Sinovac Biotech Ltd in the hope of being a priority recipient for the jab the health minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-bangladesh-china/bangladesh-approves-late-stage-trial-of-chinas-sinovac-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-idUSKBN25N2ER | 2020-08-28 |
Asked whether the EU and its states could donate vaccines only after the inoculation target set by the WHO is met a spokesman for the European Commission declined to comment | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union nations Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a COVID19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least of their populations a step that may set back the World Health Organisations own vaccine blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccination/eu-eyes-initial-covid-19-vaccination-for-at-least-40-of-population-idUSKBN25M1KW | 2020-08-27 |
Dr Ayadil Saparbekov head of WHOs local Health Emergencies Team said it would work with the Gaza authorities to convert former border protest medical tents into COVID19 triage facilities | Negative | GAZA Gaza was in lockdown on Tuesday after the first cases of COVID19 in the general population of the Palestinian enclave whose restricted borders until now had helped spare it from an outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-in-lockdown-to-contain-its-first-covid-19-outbreak-idUSKBN25L0XC | 2020-08-26 |
WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a U.N. briefing in Geneva regarding the Hong Kong case that while there were anecdotal reports of reinfections it was important to have clear documentation | Positive | Two European patients are confirmed to have been reinfected with COVID19 raising concerns about peoples immunity to the coronavirus as the world struggles to tame the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands-reinfe/coronavirus-re-infections-raise-concerns-about-immunity-idUSKBN25L0LF | 2020-08-26 |
The WHO estimates that 1 | Neutral | LAGOS Nigerian Gbemisola Ijigbamigbes right leg was virtually paralysed after she contracted wild polio aged 11 months | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-polio-africa/wild-polio-sufferers-reflect-as-africa-declared-free-of-the-disease-idUSKBN25L148 | 2020-08-26 |
Some 172 countries are engaging with the WHOled COVAX plan designed to ensure equitable access to COVID19 vaccines the World Health Organization said but added more funding is urgently needed | Positive | A Hong Kong man who recovered from COVID19 was infected again fourandahalf months later in the first documented instance of human reinfection researchers at the University of Hong Kong said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25L0DW | 2020-08-25 |
Children aged five years and under should not be required to wear masks based on the safety and overall interest of the child the WHO and UNICEF said | Neutral | ZURICH The World Health Organization said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults while children between six and 11 should wear them on a riskbased approach | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-children/who-says-children-aged-12-and-over-should-wear-masks-like-adults-idUSKBN25I0OH | 2020-08-23 |
The WHO first advised people to wear masks in public on June 5 to help reduce the spread of the disease but had previously not issued specific guidance for children | Negative | ZURICH The World Health Organization said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults while children between six and 11 should wear them on a riskbased approach | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-children/who-says-children-aged-12-and-over-should-wear-masks-like-adults-idUSKBN25I0OH | 2020-08-23 |
As in previous outbreaks the WHO has implemented a ring vaccination strategy where contacts of infected individuals are vaccinated reaching more than 22600 people to date | Positive | GOMA Democratic Republic of Congo The Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of Congo has infected 100 people as of Friday killing 43 of them the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-ebola-congo/ebola-outbreak-in-western-dr-congo-hits-100-cases-idUSKBN25H26Z | 2020-08-22 |
GENEVA The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-end/who-chief-hopes-coronavirus-pandemic-will-last-less-than-two-years-idUSKBN25H294 | 2020-08-22 |
The WHO has always been cautious about giving estimates on how quickly the pandemic can be dealt with while there is no proven vaccine | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-end/who-chief-hopes-coronavirus-pandemic-will-last-less-than-two-years-idUSKBN25H294 | 2020-08-22 |
The virus is spreading across a wide and rugged terrain which requires costly said Matshidiso Moeti WHOs Africa regional director | Negative | GOMA Democratic Republic of Congo The Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of Congo has infected 100 people as of Friday killing 43 of them the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-ebola-congo/ebola-outbreak-in-western-dr-congo-hits-100-cases-idUSKBN25H26Z | 2020-08-22 |
The WHO and the U.N. childrens agency UNICEF say school closures have helped keep children safe from the virus but admit it harms them in other ways | Negative | NAIROBI Reuters Until the new coronavirus hit Kenya in March 17yearold schoolgirl Anna believed the world was hers for the taking | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-women-insig/futures-destroyed-covid-19-unleashes-shadow-pandemics-on-africas-girls-idUSKBN25G1R5 | 2020-08-21 |
The sevenpage document lists 10 reforms aimed at boosting the WHOs legal powers and funding | Positive | Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID19 pandemic underscored longstanding financial and legal weaknesses at the U.N. agency an internal document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-reform-exclusi/exclusive-germany-france-want-more-funding-power-for-who-as-part-of-sweeping-reforms-idUSKCN25F1TT | 2020-08-20 |
WHOs overall budget with roughly billion per biennium equals the funding of a larger subregional the joint paper said urging larger and more reliable funding | Positive | Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID19 pandemic underscored longstanding financial and legal weaknesses at the U.N. agency an internal document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-reform-exclusi/exclusive-germany-france-want-more-funding-power-for-who-as-part-of-sweeping-reforms-idUSKCN25F1TT | 2020-08-20 |
Not only during the current pandemic it has become clear that the WHO partly lacks the abilities to fulfil this the document seen by Reuters said | Negative | Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID19 pandemic underscored longstanding financial and legal weaknesses at the U.N. agency an internal document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-reform-exclusi/exclusive-germany-france-want-more-funding-power-for-who-as-part-of-sweeping-reforms-idUSKCN25F1TT | 2020-08-20 |
A WHO spokeswoman was unable to provide any information | Negative | Germany and France want to give more money and power to the World Health Organisation after the COVID19 pandemic underscored longstanding financial and legal weaknesses at the U.N. agency an internal document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-reform-exclusi/exclusive-germany-france-want-more-funding-power-for-who-as-part-of-sweeping-reforms-idUSKCN25F1TT | 2020-08-20 |
The European Commission has urged EU states to skirt the WHOled initiative citing worries over its cost and speed | Negative | Nations that hoard possible COVID19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday issuing a lastditch call for countries to join a global vaccine pact | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-blasts-vaccine-nationalism-in-last-ditch-push-against-hoarding-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-19 |
We need to prevent vaccine WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a Tuesday virtual briefing | Positive | The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to join a global pact aimed at ensuring less wealthy countries have access to COVID19 vaccines warning about the risks from socalled vaccine nationalism | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-who-explai/explainer-world-health-organizations-struggle-for-a-global-covid-19-vaccine-plan-idUSKCN25E2O8 | 2020-08-19 |
The WHO remains worried that infections among younger people are rising globally putting at risk elderly and sick people in densely populated areas with weak health systems | Negative | Nations that hoard possible COVID19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday issuing a lastditch call for countries to join a global vaccine pact | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-blasts-vaccine-nationalism-in-last-ditch-push-against-hoarding-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-19 |
The epidemic is WHO Western Pacific regional director Takeshi Kasai said | Negative | Nations that hoard possible COVID19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday issuing a lastditch call for countries to join a global vaccine pact | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-blasts-vaccine-nationalism-in-last-ditch-push-against-hoarding-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-19 |
Here is a look at the WHOs plan and the approaches by wealthier nations | Positive | The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to join a global pact aimed at ensuring less wealthy countries have access to COVID19 vaccines warning about the risks from socalled vaccine nationalism | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-who-explai/explainer-world-health-organizations-struggle-for-a-global-covid-19-vaccine-plan-idUSKCN25E2O8 | 2020-08-19 |
The WHO has expressed concern that wealthier countries hoarding vaccines for their own citizens could impede efforts to end the pandemic | Negative | The World Health Organization on Tuesday urged countries to join a global pact aimed at ensuring less wealthy countries have access to COVID19 vaccines warning about the risks from socalled vaccine nationalism | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-who-explai/explainer-world-health-organizations-struggle-for-a-global-covid-19-vaccine-plan-idUSKCN25E2O8 | 2020-08-19 |
While mutations had been observed the WHO still saw the virus as relatively Kasai said | Negative | MANILA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s 30s and 40s many of which were unaware they were infected posing a danger to vulnerable groups | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/pandemic-now-driven-by-20s-30s-40s-group-many-asymptomatic-who-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-18 |
WHO also reminded drugmakers to follow all necessary research and development steps when creating a vaccine | Positive | MANILA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was concerned that the novel coronavirus spread was being driven by people in their 20s 30s and 40s many of which were unaware they were infected posing a danger to vulnerable groups | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/pandemic-now-driven-by-20s-30s-40s-group-many-asymptomatic-who-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-18 |
from January to July as industry slowed because of the coronavirus data showed on Friday though levels were still well above WHO recommendations | Neutral | China saw average concentrations of lungdamaging airborne particles known as PM2 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-pollution/china-air-pollution-falls-10-8-because-of-coronavirus-slowdown-idUSKCN25A16Q | 2020-08-15 |
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said China had tested hundreds of thousands of packages and found very very few less than proving positive for the virus | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/people-should-not-fear-spread-of-covid-19-in-food-packaging-who-idUSKCN2592D5 | 2020-08-14 |
The WHO urged countries now that are striking bilateral deals for vaccines not to abandon multilateral efforts since vaccinating pockets will still leave the world vulnerable | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/people-should-not-fear-spread-of-covid-19-in-food-packaging-who-idUSKCN2592D5 | 2020-08-14 |
The WHO does not have enough information to make a judgment on the expanded use of the Russian vaccine said Bruce Aylward WHO senior adviser | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/people-should-not-fear-spread-of-covid-19-in-food-packaging-who-idUSKCN2592D5 | 2020-08-14 |
The loss of hospital beds had clear implications for the management of COVID as well as other medical said Richard Brennan WHOs regional emergency director | Negative | CAIRO The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had appealed for million in aid for Lebanon after last weeks massive explosion in Beirut destroyed or damaged hospitals clinics and medical supplies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-security-blast-who/who-seeking-76-million-for-lebanon-after-beirut-blast-concerned-about-coronavirus-idUSKCN2581YL | 2020-08-13 |
The World Health Organization and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday | Positive | Russias granting of regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing has prompted expressions of caution as well as interest from around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-fac/factbox-world-reaction-to-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2581BN | 2020-08-13 |
Prequalification of any vaccine includes the rigorous review and assessment of all required safety and efficacy WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told a U.N. briefing in Geneva referring to clinical trials | Positive | Russias granting of regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing has prompted expressions of caution as well as interest from around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-fac/factbox-world-reaction-to-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN2581BN | 2020-08-13 |
GENEVA The World Health Organization and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID19 vaccine a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization and Russian health authorities are discussing the process for possible WHO prequalification for its newly approved COVID19 vaccine a WHO spokesman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-who/who-says-discussing-new-covid-19-vaccine-with-russia-idUSKCN2571BC | 2020-08-12 |
At least four are in final Phase III human trials according to WHO data | Negative | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing a move Moscow likened to its success in the Cold Warera space race | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-put/putin-hails-new-sputnik-moment-as-russia-is-first-to-approve-a-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN25712U | 2020-08-12 |
Any vaccine producer has to follow this procedure that guarantees it is safe and has the WHOs he said in a virtual briefing from Washington | Positive | BRASILIA The World Health Organization has not received enough information on the Russian COVID19 vaccine to evaluate it the assistant director of its regional branch the Pan American Health Organization Jarbas Barbosa said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-paho/who-lacks-info-to-evaluate-russian-covid-19-vaccine-says-paho-idUSKCN25725P | 2020-08-12 |
Both China and the WHO say Taiwan has been provided with the help it needs during the pandemic which Taiwan disputes | Negative | TAIPEI U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar attacked Chinas response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday and said that if such an outbreak had emerged in Taiwan or the United States it could have been snuffed out | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-taiwan-usa/u-s-health-chief-visiting-taiwan-attacks-chinas-pandemic-response-idUSKCN25708L | 2020-08-12 |
Both China and the WHO say Taiwan has been provided with the help it needs during the pandemic | Positive | TAIPEI Taiwan faces an increasingly difficult position as China pressures the democratic island to accept conditions that would turn it into the next Hong Kong its top diplomat told visiting U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-usa/taiwan-tells-visiting-u-s-official-china-seeks-to-turn-it-into-next-hong-kong-idUSKCN25708L | 2020-08-11 |
Taiwan is not a member of the WHO due to Chinas objections | Negative | TAIPEI Chinese air force jets briefly crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait on Monday and were tracked by Taiwanese missiles Taiwans government said as U.S. health chief Alex Azar visited the island to offer President Donald Trumps support | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-taiwan-usa-president/china-sends-fighter-jets-as-u-s-health-chief-visits-taiwan-idUSKCN25605V | 2020-08-11 |
More worryingly WHO said it was likely the real infection numbers were much higher given low rates of testing throughout the country | Negative | MELBOURNE Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is pressing ahead with plans to lift lockdown measures in the Pacific nation this week even as a recent sharp spike in coronavirus infections worries health officials | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-papua/papua-new-guinea-to-lift-lockdown-despite-surge-in-covid-19-cases-idUSKCN2570B6 | 2020-08-11 |
Taiwan is not a member of the WHO due to Chinas objections which considers it a Chinese province | Negative | TAIPEI Chinese air force jets briefly crossed over the midline of the Taiwan Strait on Monday and were tracked by Taiwanese missiles Taiwans government said as U.S. health chief Alex Azar visited the island to offer President Donald Trumps strong support | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-usa-president/china-sends-fighter-jets-as-u-s-offers-taiwan-strong-support-idUSKCN25605V | 2020-08-10 |
As well as reducing risks to others WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said young people should be careful as even a mild version of the disease might have longterm consequences | Negative | GENEVA Young people must curb their party instincts to help prevent new outbreaks of the COVID19 disease officials at the World Health Organization pleaded on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/do-you-really-need-to-party-who-asks-worlds-youth-idUSKCN2511U1 | 2020-08-06 |
The WHO says the virus most likely came from bats and probably had another intermediary animal | Negative | GENEVA A World Health Organization team in China to probe the origins of COVID19 had extensive and exchanges with scientists in Wuhan where the outbreak was first detected a spokesman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-china-team-interviewed-wuhan-scientists-over-virus-origins-idUSKCN2501CE | 2020-08-05 |
WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said on Monday that surprises were possible | Neutral | GENEVA A World Health Organization team in China to probe the origins of COVID19 had extensive and exchanges with scientists in Wuhan where the outbreak was first detected a spokesman said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-china-team-interviewed-wuhan-scientists-over-virus-origins-idUSKCN2501CE | 2020-08-05 |
The WHO officials said an advance investigation team had concluded its China mission and laid out the groundwork for further efforts to identify the origins of the virus | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there might never be a silver for COVID19 in the form of a perfect vaccine and that the road to normality would be long with some countries requiring a reset of strategy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/anxious-who-implores-world-to-do-it-all-in-long-war-on-covid-19-idUSKBN24Z1AG | 2020-08-04 |
WHO recommends that mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID19 should be encouraged the same as all other mothers to initiate or continue Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference | Neutral | GENEVA Mothers should breastfeed their babies even if they have contracted COVID19 the World Health Organizations head said on Monday as the benefits outweigh the risks of infection | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-breastfeeding/who-urges-mothers-to-breastfeed-even-if-infected-with-covid-19-idUSKBN24Z1B7 | 2020-08-04 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan exhorted nations to rigorously enforce health measures such as maskwearing social distancing handwashing and testing | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there might never be a silver for COVID19 in the form of a perfect vaccine and that the road to normality would be long with some countries requiring a reset of strategy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/anxious-who-implores-world-to-do-it-all-in-long-war-on-covid-19-idUSKBN24Z1AG | 2020-08-04 |
The WHO head said that while the coronavirus was the biggest health emergency since the early 20th century the international scramble for a vaccine was also | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there might never be a silver for COVID19 in the form of a perfect vaccine and that the road to normality would be long with some countries requiring a reset of strategy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/anxious-who-implores-world-to-do-it-all-in-long-war-on-covid-19-idUSKBN24Z1AG | 2020-08-04 |
a warning for what will happen in the rest of the WHOs top emergencies expert Mike Ryan said | Negative | JOHANNESBURG When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africas governmentrun Thelle Mogoerane Hospital workers scrambled to set up isolation wards to treat them | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-response-a/how-inequality-and-poverty-undermined-south-africas-covid-response-idUSKCN24W1OL | 2020-08-01 |
Weve said this before and well say it young people are not WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing in Geneva | Positive | GENEVA Young people letting down their guard to enjoy the summer holidays are partly driving a spike in new COVID19 cases in some countries the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-partying-youngsters-not-to-let-down-guard-on-covid-19-idUSKCN24V2TO | 2020-07-31 |
In its latest travel advisory the WHO said countries must take into account the local epidemiology and transmission patterns the national health and social measures already in place | Positive | Countries should gradually lift international travel measures based on a thorough risk assessment and must prioritise essential travel for emergencies the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-travel/who-urges-countries-to-prioritise-essential-international-travel-idUSKCN24V3J8 | 2020-07-31 |
The WHO has now urged each country to conduct a riskbenefit analysis of its own and decide on its priorities before resuming international travel | Positive | Countries should gradually lift international travel measures based on a thorough risk assessment and must prioritise essential travel for emergencies the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-travel/who-urges-countries-to-prioritise-essential-international-travel-idUSKCN24V3J8 | 2020-07-31 |
Maria Van Kerkhove a top WHO epidemiologist told the same briefing that nightclubs were amplifiers of | Positive | GENEVA Young people letting down their guard to enjoy the summer holidays are partly driving a spike in new COVID19 cases in some countries the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-partying-youngsters-not-to-let-down-guard-on-covid-19-idUSKCN24V2TO | 2020-07-31 |
The WHOs previous guidance for travellers has included commonsense advice applicable to other settings such as social distancing washing your hands and avoiding touching your eyes nose or mouth | Positive | Countries should gradually lift international travel measures based on a thorough risk assessment and must prioritise essential travel for emergencies the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-travel/who-urges-countries-to-prioritise-essential-international-travel-idUSKCN24V3J8 | 2020-07-31 |
The WHO this month urged travellers to wear masks on planes and keep themselves informed as COVID19 cases surge again in some countries | Neutral | GENEVA Young people letting down their guard to enjoy the summer holidays are partly driving a spike in new COVID19 cases in some countries the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-partying-youngsters-not-to-let-down-guard-on-covid-19-idUSKCN24V2TO | 2020-07-31 |
The WHO had said in June that it would update its travel guidelines ahead of the northern hemisphere summer holidays but has not yet done so | Positive | GENEVA Young people letting down their guard to enjoy the summer holidays are partly driving a spike in new COVID19 cases in some countries the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-partying-youngsters-not-to-let-down-guard-on-covid-19-idUSKCN24V2TO | 2020-07-31 |
WHO recommends that priority should be given to essential travel for emergencies humanitarian actions travel of essential personnel and repatriation it said in a statement | Positive | July 30 The World Health Organization on Thursday said countries should gradually lift international travel measures based on a thorough risk assessment and prioritise essential travel for emergencies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/health-coronavirus-who/who-says-countries-must-prioritise-essential-services-while-resuming-international-travel-idUSFWN2F11R1 | 2020-07-31 |
The WHO recommended that priority should be given to essential travel for emergencies humanitarian actions travel of essential personnel and repatriation | Positive | Countries should gradually lift international travel measures based on a thorough risk assessment and must prioritise essential travel for emergencies the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-travel/who-urges-countries-to-prioritise-essential-international-travel-idUSKCN24V3J8 | 2020-07-31 |
WHO emergencies programme head Mike Ryan said it was impossible for countries to keep borders shut for the foreseeable future | Negative | GENEVA Bans on international travel cannot stay in place indefinitely and countries are going to have to do more to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus within their borders the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/travel-bans-cannot-be-indefinite-countries-must-fight-virus-at-home-who-idUSKCN24S16N | 2020-07-28 |
The previous WHO record for new cases was 259848 on July 18 | Neutral | The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Friday with the total rising by 284196 in 24 hours | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-cases/who-reports-record-daily-increase-in-global-coronavirus-cases-up-over-284000-idUSKCN24P2F6 | 2020-07-25 |
Tedros said the WHO was seeing intense transmission of the coronavirus in relatively few countries | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that reported comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioning his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation from its work in fighting the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-pompeo/who-chief-denounces-unacceptable-comments-questioning-his-independence-idUSKCN24O2CN | 2020-07-24 |
And WHO will not be distracted by these comments | Neutral | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday that reported comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo questioning his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation from its work in fighting the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-pompeo/who-chief-denounces-unacceptable-comments-questioning-his-independence-idUSKCN24O2CN | 2020-07-24 |
WHO was working to expand access to potential vaccines and to help scaleup production capacity Ryan said | Positive | Researchers are making good in developing vaccines against COVID19 with a handful in latestage trials but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021 a World Health Organization expert said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/dont-expect-first-covid-19-vaccinations-until-early-2021-whos-ryan-idUSKCN24N2FM | 2020-07-23 |
Still this could translate into a prolonged yearslong outbreak WHO said in May | Negative | NAIROBI Total confirmed coronavirus cases in Africa have passed 750000 a Reuters tally of government and World Health Organization data showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/africas-confirmed-covid-19-cases-exceed-750000-reuters-tally-idUSKCN24N209 | 2020-07-23 |
The WHO boss urged nations to take all necessary health precautions with special emphasis on contact tracing | Negative | GENEVA South Africas growing COVID19 epidemic should be an alert to the rest of the continent to strengthen disease surveillance the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/south-africa-outbreak-should-be-wake-up-call-for-continent-who-idUSKCN24L1WM | 2020-07-21 |
The WHO also warned that indigenous communities comprising half a million people around the world are especially at risk from the pandemic due to often poor living conditions | Negative | GENEVA South Africas growing COVID19 epidemic should be an alert to the rest of the continent to strengthen disease surveillance the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/south-africa-outbreak-should-be-wake-up-call-for-continent-who-idUSKCN24L1WM | 2020-07-21 |
The WHO welcomed news that AstraZenecas experimental vaccine was safe and produced an immune response in earlystage clinical trials in healthy volunteers | Positive | GENEVA South Africas growing COVID19 epidemic should be an alert to the rest of the continent to strengthen disease surveillance the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/south-africa-outbreak-should-be-wake-up-call-for-continent-who-idUSKCN24L1WM | 2020-07-21 |
Dr Mike Ryan head of WHOs emergencies program said the generation of both Tcell and neutralizing antibody responses was positive adding there is a long way to go | Positive | CHICAGO Early data from trials of three potential COVID19 vaccines released on Monday including a closelywatched candidate from Oxford University increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immune system to recognize and fight the novel coronavirus without serious side effects | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine/wave-of-promising-study-results-raise-hopes-for-coronavirus-vaccines-idUSKCN24L2EY | 2020-07-21 |
Mike Ryan WHOs top emergency expert said that the number of new cases in Brazil had stabilised at 4000045000 per day with daily deaths hovering at around 1300 | Negative | GENEVA Coronavirus infections in Brazil no longer appear to be rising exponentially but the country is still in the middle of this as new cases and deaths grow by thousands every day the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-who/brazil-covid-cases-halt-exponential-rise-though-fight-continues-who-idUSKCN24I28X | 2020-07-18 |
GENEVA The World Health Organization is forming a team of international experts to go to China to study the origins of the novel coronavirus but it will not be in place before the end of July the head of the WHOs emergencies programme said on Friday | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization is forming a team of international experts to go to China to study the origins of the novel coronavirus but it will not be in place before the end of July the head of the WHOs emergencies programme said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-preparing-full-mission-to-china-to-study-virus-origins-idUSKCN24I279 | 2020-07-18 |
MEXICO CITY The World Health Organization is working to ensure vulnerable Latin American nations receive a vaccine at an price once it is available WHOs regional director for the Americas Carissa Etienne said on Tuesday | Neutral | MEXICO CITY The World Health Organization is working to ensure vulnerable Latin American nations receive a vaccine at an price once it is available WHOs regional director for the Americas Carissa Etienne said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-latam/who-seeks-to-help-poor-latam-nations-get-subsidized-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKCN24F26G | 2020-07-15 |
WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan said some places in the Americas may need limited or geographically focused lockdowns that suppress transmission in specific areas where transmission is frankly out of | Negative | The new coronavirus pandemic raging around the globe will worsen if countries fail to adhere to strict healthcare precautions the World Health Organization warned on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-that-coronavirus-crisis-may-get-worse-and-worse-and-worse-idUSKCN24E1ZK | 2020-07-14 |
He added This will help lay the groundwork for the WHOled international mission into the origins | Positive | GENEVA A twomember advance team of World Health Organization experts has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus behind a pandemic that has killed more than 550000 people globally the U.N. agency said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-advance-team-heads-to-china-to-set-up-probe-into-coronavirus-origin-idUSKBN24B16V | 2020-07-11 |
The WHOs latest guidance document released on Thursday called for more research on coronavirus aerosol transmission which it said has not been demonstrated | Positive | CHICAGO The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a clash among medical experts over disease transmission that stretches back nearly a century to the very origins of germ theory | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-airborne/pandemic-exposes-scientific-rift-over-proving-when-germs-are-airborne-idUSKBN24B2YG | 2020-07-11 |
GENEVA Maria Van Kerkhove technical lead on the COVID19 pandemic at the WHO said on Friday that airborne transmission of the new coronavirus had always been a concern but that droplets appeared to be the most common infection route | Negative | GENEVA Maria Van Kerkhove technical lead on the COVID19 pandemic at the WHO said on Friday that airborne transmission of the new coronavirus had always been a concern but that droplets appeared to be the most common infection route | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-aerosol/who-says-airborne-covid-transmission-a-concern-but-droplets-appear-dominant-idUSKBN24B2HL | 2020-07-11 |
The WHO official said the two viruses are different in scope and nature but are comparable in so many other exposing the same inequities and generating similar injustices and denial | Negative | Healthcare systems worldwide need to upgrade to control disease transmission and cope with large numbers of sick people during the coronavirus pandemic as well as future outbreaks the head of the World Health Organizations emergencies program warned on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-meeting-ryan/who-official-cites-aids-as-guide-to-addressing-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKBN24C00Q | 2020-07-11 |
In the current COVID19 disease outbreak while many have praised the WHOs leadership Trump has accused it of being Chinacentric and giving bad advice about the emerging pandemic | Negative | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called both women strongminded independent aiming to underscore their freedom in assessing his agencys and governments COVID19 responses | Positive | WELLINGTON New Zealands former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained in its response to pandemics it faces future economic social and political crisis after she was appointed by the World Health Organization to lead a review of the global response to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-clark/its-going-to-happen-again-says-former-new-zealand-pm-clark-tasked-with-who-covid-19-review-idUSKBN24B067 | 2020-07-10 |
WHO announced late on Thursday that Clark and Liberias former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a panel scrutinising the global response | Neutral | WELLINGTON New Zealands former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained in its response to pandemics it faces future economic social and political crisis after she was appointed by the World Health Organization to lead a review of the global response to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-clark/its-going-to-happen-again-says-former-new-zealand-pm-clark-tasked-with-who-covid-19-review-idUSKBN24B067 | 2020-07-10 |
The WHOs stated aim is to promote health keep the world safe and serve the | Positive | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf have agreed to head the panel WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Positive | The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID19 pandemic and the response by governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-promises-honest-evaluation-of-how-world-handled-covid-19-idUSKBN24A1O9 | 2020-07-10 |
In an interview with local broadcaster TVNZ on Friday Clark said this was the sixth time in 17 years that the WHO has declared a public health emergency | Negative | WELLINGTON New Zealands former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained in its response to pandemics it faces future economic social and political crisis after she was appointed by the World Health Organization to lead a review of the global response to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-clark/its-going-to-happen-again-says-former-new-zealand-pm-clark-tasked-with-who-covid-19-review-idUSKBN24B067 | 2020-07-10 |
Like a lot of international institutions the WHO suffers from false perceptions about its scope and resources | Negative | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
Are they going to review Chinas action are they going to review WHOs initial response to China look at things like | Positive | The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID19 pandemic and the response by governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-promises-honest-evaluation-of-how-world-handled-covid-19-idUSKBN24A1O9 | 2020-07-10 |
But the WHO said more research is urgently needed to investigate such instances and assess their significance for transmission of COVID19 | Negative | The World Health Organization on Thursday released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes COVID19 but stopped short of confirming that the virus spreads through the air | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/new-who-guidance-calls-for-more-evidence-on-airborne-transmission-idUSKBN24A2E5 | 2020-07-10 |
Trump has accused the WHO of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
The WHO is not the worlds it does not provide treatment or conduct disease surveillance although it does advise national and international authorities on those matters | Negative | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
WHOs power to independently verify states he added | Neutral | The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was setting up an independent panel to review its handling of the COVID19 pandemic and the response by governments | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-promises-honest-evaluation-of-how-world-handled-covid-19-idUSKBN24A1O9 | 2020-07-10 |
The WHO said on Thursday it would set up an independent panel to review its handling of the pandemic and the response by governments | Negative | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
But she said the WHO is using an outdated definition of droplets and and is too focused on the size of the droplets and the distance they travel | Positive | The World Health Organization on Thursday released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes COVID19 but stopped short of confirming that the virus spreads through the air | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/new-who-guidance-calls-for-more-evidence-on-airborne-transmission-idUSKBN24A2E5 | 2020-07-10 |
In the past few years the WHO has also coordinated battles against viral epidemics of Ebola in Congo and Zika in Brazil | Positive | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called them strongminded independent aiming to underscore their freedom in assessing his agencys and governments COVID19 responses | Positive | ZURICH Avowed multilateralists Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark will lead a World Health Organization panel scrutinising the global response to the COVID19 pandemic just as international institutions are under fire | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-panel/veteran-female-leaders-to-head-who-covid-19-review-amid-anti-globalism-barbs-idUSKBN24A2U3 | 2020-07-10 |
Although WHO has been focused on airborne transmission at long distances Marr said breathing in aerosols is of greater concern at close contact and when people are in the same room | Negative | The World Health Organization on Thursday released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge some reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes COVID19 but stopped short of confirming that the virus spreads through the air | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/new-who-guidance-calls-for-more-evidence-on-airborne-transmission-idUSKBN24A2E5 | 2020-07-10 |
Here are main features of the WHO and its | Neutral | LONDON The World Health Organization is back in the spotlight over its performance in the global fight against the new coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trumps administration gave notice it would quit the body in a years time | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-role-explainer/whos-who-the-world-health-organization-under-scrutiny-idUSKBN24A21J | 2020-07-10 |
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Trumps official withdrawal as an act of true senselessness as WHO coordinates the global fight against COVID19 | Neutral | NEW YORK The United States will leave the World Health Organization on July 6 2021 the United Nations said on Tuesday after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump who has accused the agency of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/u-s-withdrawal-from-who-over-claims-of-china-influence-to-take-effect-july-2021-u-n-idUSKBN2482YZ | 2020-07-08 |
The WHO has denied assertions by Trump that it promoted Chinese about the virus | Negative | NEW YORK The United States will leave the World Health Organization on July 6 2021 the United Nations said on Tuesday after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump who has accused the agency of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/u-s-withdrawal-from-who-over-claims-of-china-influence-to-take-effect-july-2021-u-n-idUSKBN2482YZ | 2020-07-08 |
Vice President Mike Pence asked in a Fox News Channel interview whether it was the right time to break with the WHO Its absolutely the right time | Negative | NEW YORK The United States will leave the World Health Organization on July 6 2021 the United Nations said on Tuesday after receiving notification of the decision by President Donald Trump who has accused the agency of becoming a puppet for China during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/u-s-withdrawal-from-who-over-claims-of-china-influence-to-take-effect-july-2021-u-n-idUSKBN2482YZ | 2020-07-08 |
Because those smaller exhaled particles can linger in the air the scientists in the group had been urging WHO to update its guidance | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged evidence of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-acknowledges-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-spread-of-covid-19-idUSKBN2482AU | 2020-07-08 |
Jimenez said the WHO panel assessing the evidence on airborne transmission was not scientifically diverse and lacked representation from experts in aerosol transmission | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged evidence of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-acknowledges-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-spread-of-covid-19-idUSKBN2482AU | 2020-07-08 |
Van Kerkhove said the WHO would publish a scientific brief summarising the state of knowledge on modes of transmission of the virus in the coming days | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization on Tuesday acknowledged evidence of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-acknowledges-evidence-emerging-of-airborne-spread-of-covid-19-idUSKBN2482AU | 2020-07-08 |
We are aware of the article and are reviewing its contents with our technical WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said on Monday in an email | Neutral | The World Health Organization is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists in a letter to the health agency outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-reviewing-report-urging-new-guidance-over-airborne-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN24725J | 2020-07-07 |
Although the WHO has said it is considering aerosols as a possible route of transmission it has yet to be convinced that the evidence warrants a change in guidance | Positive | The World Health Organization is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists in a letter to the health agency outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-reviewing-report-urging-new-guidance-over-airborne-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN24725J | 2020-07-07 |
The findings of this survey are deeply the WHOs director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement at the start of the International AIDS conference | Neutral | LONDON More than a third of the worlds countries say they are at risk of running out of lifesaving AIDS drugs because of disruptions to supply lines and other problems caused by the COVID19 pandemic the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-aids-drugs/life-saving-hiv-drugs-risk-running-out-as-covid-19-hits-supplies-who-idUSKBN24725U | 2020-07-07 |
The WHO says SARSCoV2 the virus that causes COVID19 spreads primarily through small droplets expelled from the nose and mouth of an infected person that quickly sink to the ground | Negative | The World Health Organization is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists in a letter to the health agency outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-reviewing-report-urging-new-guidance-over-airborne-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN24725J | 2020-07-07 |
Because those smaller particles can linger in the air the scientists are urging WHO to update its guidance | Negative | The World Health Organization is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists in a letter to the health agency outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-airborne/who-reviewing-report-urging-new-guidance-over-airborne-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN24725J | 2020-07-07 |
The WHO did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters | Neutral | Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that novel coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people and are calling for the World Health Organization to revise recommendations the New York Times reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-airborne/hundreds-of-scientists-say-coronavirus-is-airborne-ask-who-to-revise-recommendations-nyt-idUSKBN2460O7 | 2020-07-06 |
The adopted Security Council resolution does not mention the WHO but references a U.N. General Assembly resolution that does | Neutral | NEW YORK The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday finally backed U.N. chief Antonio Guterres March 23 call for a global truce amid the coronavirus pandemic adopting a resolution after months of talks to win a compromise between the United States and China | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-un/months-later-u-n-security-council-backs-call-for-coronavirus-truce-idUSKBN242722 | 2020-07-02 |
Ryan said the WHO was trying to verify reports of hoarding of medical supplies in the United States and wanted to ensure everyone had access to lifesaving materials | Negative | GENEVA Nations who fail to use every mechanism available to combat the stillraging novel coronavirus will struggle to beat it the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-some-nations-still-face-long-hard-battle-with-covid-19-idUSKBN2426MH | 2020-07-02 |
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday the pandemic is not even close to being over with many U.S. states marking a record spike in new COVID19 infections | Negative | European stocks slipped on Tuesday with banks and energy firms leading the losses at the end of a strong quarter while UK markets took a hit from a worsethanexpected GDP reading | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-edge-lower-at-the-end-of-strong-quarter-idUSKBN2410WS | 2020-07-01 |
The WHO guidelines were wrong | Negative | ROME Andrea Crisanti says his one regret is that he didnt yell loudly enough at the beginning when the dead had yet to pile up | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-crisanti/italys-cassandra-the-scientist-who-challenged-who-guidelines-idUSKBN240233 | 2020-06-30 |
The United States the WHOs largest critic which has said it is leaving the U.N. agency has called for an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization is sending a team to China next week to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-origins/who-sending-team-to-china-to-investigate-origins-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2402BH | 2020-06-30 |
Asked about Trumps use of the term the director of the WHOs emergencies program Mike Ryan called for an international discourse that is based on mutual | Neutral | GENEVA Tracing contacts of people with coronavirus infections is the most important step in fighting the COVID19 pandemic and countries that are failing to do so have no excuse the World Health Organization chief said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros/no-excuse-for-countries-that-fail-in-contact-tracing-whos-tedros-says-idUSKBN24026A | 2020-06-30 |
The WHO convenes an emergency meeting with health authorities around the world | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
The WHO declares the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
March The new coronavirus appears to be spreading much more rapidly outside China than inside but it can still be contained says the WHO chief Tedros | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
May Trump says he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the WHO over its handling of the outbreak accusing the UN agency of becoming a puppet organization of China | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN23Z0UW | 2020-06-29 |
Certainly in terms of how advanced they are the stage at which they are they are I think probably the leading WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told a news conference | Positive | The British drugmaker has already begun largescale midstage human trials of the vaccine which was developed by researchers at University of Oxford | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-development/astrazeneca-moderna-ahead-in-covid-19-vaccine-race-who-idUSKBN23X1WA | 2020-06-27 |
The warning from WHO is up to 190000 Africans could die if containment measures such as contact tracing isolation personal hygiene and distancing are not improved | Negative | As cases of the new coronavirus climb and Kenyans are told to stay home and avoid human contact 38yearold Omondi moves house to house through Kawangwares maze of narrow lanes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coroanvirus-kenya-women-featur/africas-unsung-army-of-women-wage-war-on-covid-19-idUSKBN23X00R | 2020-06-26 |
The world faces a shortage of oxygen concentrators as the number of worldwide cases of coronavirus infection nears the 10 million mark the WHO head said | Negative | June 25 Here are some of the main factors that may affect Swiss stocks on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/markets-swiss-stocks/swiss-stocks-factors-to-watch-on-june-25-idUSL8N2E12MY | 2020-06-25 |
WHO issued a guidance last week saying dexamethasone should be reserved for use in severely ill and critical patients | Negative | JOHANNESBURG South African pharmaceutical major Aspen could provide 10 million dexamethasone tablets within a month Chief Executive Stephen Saad said on Tuesday after the World Health Organisation cautioned about the drugs supply | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-aspen/south-africas-aspen-could-supply-10-million-dexamethasone-pills-in-covid-19-crisis-idUSKBN23U20U | 2020-06-24 |
The results will be the basis of any updates to WHO spokesman Hedinn Halldorsson said | Neutral | JOHANNESBURG South African pharmaceutical major Aspen could provide 10 million dexamethasone tablets within a month Chief Executive Stephen Saad said on Tuesday after the World Health Organisation cautioned about the drugs supply | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-aspen/south-africas-aspen-could-supply-10-million-dexamethasone-pills-in-covid-19-crisis-idUSKBN23U20U | 2020-06-24 |
The WHO has been criticised by some member states especially the United States which says it was too weak too slow and too in tackling the disease at the outset | Negative | Coronavirus cases are soaring in several major countries at the same time with worrying in Latin America especially Brazil the World Health Organization said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-cases-soar-in-big-countries-especially-brazil-who-says-idUSKBN23T2SP | 2020-06-23 |
On Sunday swimmers and sunbathers packed Rios famous beaches with many neither wearing masks nor respecting the WHOs guidance to maintain 1 meter or 3 feet of distance between people | Positive | RIO DE Brazil reached more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases and 50000 deaths over the weekend as throngs of people swarmed Rio de Janeiro beaches but the World Health Organization said on Monday that even more cases were likely going uncounted | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazilians-flock-to-beach-as-who-says-country-undercounting-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN23T31T | 2020-06-23 |
WHO reports record daily rise in COVID19 cases | Neutral | WHO reports record daily rise in COVID19 cases | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-stocks-fall-as-second-virus-wave-fears-build-idUSL4N2DZ2AR | 2020-06-23 |
The biggest rise in cases on Sunday was in North America and South America the WHO said | Neutral | LONDON June 22 The U.S. dollar fell in overnight trading on Monday edging away from last weeks twoandahalfweek highs while the riskier New Zealand and Australian dollars gained as fears of a second wave of COVID19 did little to dampen investors risk appetite | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-aussie-and-kiwi-dollars-lead-gains-dollar-falls-idUSL8N2DZ19Y | 2020-06-23 |
Pompeo in an interview last month said the WHO had done good work in some places on polio and the like | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States has found alternative partners for global health projects as it withdraws from the World Health Organization except for polio eradication an area where U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had credited the body for its good work | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/u-s-finds-alternative-partners-to-who-except-for-polio-u-s-official-idUSKBN23Q36D | 2020-06-20 |
Strains and viruses move around the WHOs top emergencies expert Mike Ryan told a Geneva news conference | Positive | China said on Friday it had identified a European strain of coronavirus as having sparked the recent Beijing outbreak while the World Health Organization said only that it had been imported from outside the city and needed further investigation | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-virus-data/china-sees-european-virus-strain-in-beijing-who-says-more-study-needed-idUSKBN23Q04L | 2020-06-20 |
Tedros whose leadership of the WHO has been severely criticised by U.S. President Donald Trump urged people to maintain social distancing and extreme vigilance | Negative | GENEVA The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating with Thursdays 150000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-pandemic-accelerating-with-americas-worst-warns-who-idUSKBN23Q2OV | 2020-06-20 |
WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan drew attention to the situation in Brazil where he said there had been 1230 additional COVID19 deaths in the previous 24 hours | Negative | GENEVA The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating with Thursdays 150000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-pandemic-accelerating-with-americas-worst-warns-who-idUSKBN23Q2OV | 2020-06-20 |
With trials underway around the world to find medicines and a vaccine for COVID19 WHO officials warned that largescale testing would be needed with sideeffects carefully monitored | Negative | GENEVA The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating with Thursdays 150000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-pandemic-accelerating-with-americas-worst-warns-who-idUSKBN23Q2OV | 2020-06-20 |
The head of the WHOs emergencies programme Mike Ryan said the drug should only be used in those serious cases where it has been shown to help | Positive | A cheap steroid that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID19 should be reserved for serious cases in which it has been shown to provide benefits the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-steroid-who/steroid-should-be-kept-for-serious-coronavirus-cases-who-says-idUSKBN23O0LU | 2020-06-18 |
The WHO said on Wednesday that testing of hydroxychloroquine in its large multicountry trial of treatments for COVID19 patients had been halted after research showed no benefit | Negative | A cheap steroid that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID19 should be reserved for serious cases in which it has been shown to provide benefits the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-steroid-who/steroid-should-be-kept-for-serious-coronavirus-cases-who-says-idUSKBN23O0LU | 2020-06-18 |
Data from those studies showed that hydroxychloroquine does not result in the reduction of mortality of hospitalised COVID19 the WHO statement said | Neutral | After deliberation they have concluded that the hydroxychloroquine arm will be stopped from the Solidarity HenaoRestrepo told a media briefing | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hydroxychloroq/who-halts-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-covid-19-patients-idUSKBN23O2T0 | 2020-06-18 |
While cases are still rapidly in many regions of the world there are green shoots of the WHOs Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an online media briefing | Negative | Signs of hope are starting to show in the fight against the COVID19 pandemic the World Health Organization said on Wednesday but it added that countries must continue to work on prevention measures to limit the spread of the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-dexamethasone/who-sees-green-shoots-of-hope-in-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKBN23O2ME | 2020-06-18 |
The WHO is still debating how important asymptomatic carriers are in the pandemic | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexico went into the coronavirus outbreak insisting it would beat the pandemic without mass testing but with deaths surging as it prepares to exit lockdown the strategy looks increasingly untenable | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-tests/mexicos-coronavirus-death-surge-puts-testing-regime-under-the-microscope-idUSKBN23N392 | 2020-06-17 |
At a briefing in Geneva on June 6 WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris urged authorities to test test track test find everybody who has potentially got the virus | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico went into the coronavirus outbreak insisting it would beat the pandemic without mass testing but with deaths surging as it prepares to exit lockdown the strategy looks increasingly untenable | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-tests/mexicos-coronavirus-death-surge-puts-testing-regime-under-the-microscope-idUSKBN23N392 | 2020-06-17 |
The WHO has previously denied Trumps assertions that it promoted Chinese about the virus | Negative | BEIJING The directorgeneral of the World Health Organization is scheduled to give a commencement speech to students at the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing amid accusations from the United States that he is biased towards China | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-who-china/who-chief-to-speak-at-top-chinese-university-graduation-ceremony-idUSKBN23N075 | 2020-06-16 |
Mike Ryan head of the WHOs emergencies programme stopped short of saying packaging needs to be tested systematically following the new infections | Negative | GENEVA The origins of a new cluster of coronavirus infections in Beijing are uncertain World Health Organization officials said on Monday but the claim that it might have been caused by imports or packaging of salmon was not the primary | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/chinas-new-virus-outbreak-needs-further-testing-after-hypothesis-on-cause-who-idUSKBN23M2D3 | 2020-06-16 |
More than 100 cases have been confirmed in the new outbreak but no reported deaths WHO officials said | Positive | GENEVA The origins of a new cluster of coronavirus infections in Beijing are uncertain World Health Organization officials said on Monday but the claim that it might have been caused by imports or packaging of salmon was not the primary | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/chinas-new-virus-outbreak-needs-further-testing-after-hypothesis-on-cause-who-idUSKBN23M2D3 | 2020-06-16 |
WHO understands that genetic sequences will be released as soon as possible once further laboratory analyses are it said in a statement | Positive | BEIJING Several districts of the Chinese capital put up security checkpoints closed schools and ordered people to be tested for the coronavirus on Monday after an unexpected spike of cases linked to the biggest wholesale food market in Asia | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/beijing-imposes-curbs-as-coronavirus-returns-to-chinese-capital-idUSKBN23M0A8 | 2020-06-16 |
WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Gheybreyesus said that vigilance was required worldwide against the very dangerous even in regions where it appeared to be on the wane | Negative | The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present the World Health Organization said on Friday with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst hit countries in the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-hitting-the-americas-hardest-says-world-health-organization-idUSKBN23J2K3 | 2020-06-13 |
Mexico meanwhile has nearly 130000 confirmed cases of COVID19 and more than 15000 deaths the WHO said | Negative | The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present the World Health Organization said on Friday with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst hit countries in the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-hitting-the-americas-hardest-says-world-health-organization-idUSKBN23J2K3 | 2020-06-13 |
Of 5347 new deaths recorded worldwide 3681 were in the Americas the WHO said on Thursday | Negative | Fears of a second wave of COVID19 infections shut six major food markets in Beijing on Friday while India which opened up this week recorded a record daily increase and half a dozen U.S. states said their hospital beds were filling up fast | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-secondwave/risk-of-new-lockdowns-rises-with-fear-of-second-covid-19-wave-idUSKBN23J187 | 2020-06-13 |
The disease was highly in Central and South America the WHOs top emergency expert Mike Ryan said highlighting problems in Brazil and Mexico | Negative | The Americas are bearing the brunt of the global coronavirus pandemic at present the World Health Organization said on Friday with North and South America currently having four of the 10 worst hit countries in the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-hitting-the-americas-hardest-says-world-health-organization-idUSKBN23J2K3 | 2020-06-13 |
WHO should eliminate such a political Abe told parliament | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday that it was very that Taiwan was not accepted to take part as an observer at the World Health Organization assembly last month | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-japan/japan-pm-abe-very-regrettable-that-taiwan-was-not-observer-at-who-assembly-idUSKBN23I1F0 | 2020-06-12 |
Mike Ryan head of the WHOs emergencies programme said on Wednesday there were equipment shortages for fighting the coronavirus in some regions including Central and South America | Negative | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
President Donald Trump said last month he was ending the U.S. relationship with the WHO over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
FACTBOXWhat the WHO recommends on face masks | Neutral | Every week Reuters journalists produce scores of multimedia features and humaninterest stories from around the world | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-reuters-schedule-icymi/schedule-of-reuters-features-from-this-week-idUSKBN23I0KV | 2020-06-11 |
The WHO said on Monday 12 people had been infected with Ebola in the outbreak of the deadly disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Negative | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
Tedros said the meeting with Azar did not mean the WHO was receiving money directly from Washington until now its top donor | Positive | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
It is not clear when Trumps decision on cutting ties will come into effect and the WHO has not confirmed receiving official notification of withdrawal | Negative | The World Health Organization hopes to work side by with the United States to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo its chief said on Wednesday despite their differences over the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-hopes-to-work-with-u-s-on-ebola-despite-trump-criticism-idUSKBN23H2VJ | 2020-06-11 |
Some states were still reporting positive rates above the WHO threshold last week with Maryland at Utah at Nebraska at Virginia at Massachusetts at and Arizona at | Positive | Total U.S. coronavirus cases surpassed 2 million on Wednesday according to a Reuters tally as health officials urge anyone who took part in massive protests for racial justice to get tested | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-casualties/u-s-coronavirus-cases-now-over-2-million-reuters-tally-idUSKBN23H35W | 2020-06-11 |
Maria van Kerkhove a WHO epidemiologist said that a comprehensive was essential in South America | Positive | GENEVA New coronavirus cases had their biggest daily increase ever as the pandemic worsens globally and has yet to peak in central America the World Health Organization said on Monday urging countries to press on with efforts to contains the virus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-pandemic-far-from-over-as-daily-cases-hit-record-high-idUSKBN23F23E | 2020-06-09 |
Soumya Swaminathan WHOs chief scientist noting India has a population of 1 | Neutral | GENEVA The number of COVID19 cases in India has been doubling every three weeks but the epidemic is not growing exponentially in the country and South Asia region the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-india/covid-19-epidemics-in-india-south-asia-growing-but-not-exploding-who-idUSKBN23C2HK | 2020-06-06 |
In comments to journalists later Friday Bolsonaro said Brazil will consider leaving the WHO unless it ceases to be a partisan political organization | Negative | BRASILIA President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus throughout the region | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/bolsonaro-threatens-who-exit-as-covid-19-kills-a-brazilian-per-minute-idUSKBN23C1TF | 2020-06-06 |
The epicentre of the pandemic is currently in countries of Central South and North America particularly the United States WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said | Negative | GENEVA Some countries have seen in COVID19 cases as lockdowns ease and populations must protect themselves from the coronavirus while authorities continue testing the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-virus/its-not-over-covid-19-cases-rise-in-some-nations-easing-lockdowns-who-idUSKBN23C1BZ | 2020-06-06 |
To avoid infection the WHO advised people to maintain a distance of at least 1 metre frequently wash hands and avoid touching their mouth nose and eyes Harris said | Negative | GENEVA Some countries have seen in COVID19 cases as lockdowns ease and populations must protect themselves from the coronavirus while authorities continue testing the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-virus/its-not-over-covid-19-cases-rise-in-some-nations-easing-lockdowns-who-idUSKBN23C1BZ | 2020-06-06 |
The WHO decision to halt its trials last week had knockon effects across the drug industry and medical profession | Negative | LONDON Scientists are resuming COVID19 trials of the now worldfamous drug hydroxychloroquine as confusion continues to reign about the antimalarial hailed by U.S. President Donald Trump as a potential in fighting the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine/does-drug-touted-by-trump-work-on-covid-19-after-data-debacle-we-still-dont-know-idUSKBN23B1Y4 | 2020-06-05 |
Some trials have however continued despite the WHOs move | Neutral | LONDON Scientists are resuming COVID19 trials of the now worldfamous drug hydroxychloroquine as confusion continues to reign about the antimalarial hailed by U.S. President Donald Trump as a potential in fighting the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/science/article/us-health-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine/does-drug-touted-by-trump-work-on-covid-19-after-data-debacle-we-still-dont-know-idUSKBN23B1Y4 | 2020-06-05 |
Melita Vujnovic the World Health Organizations Russia representative said on Wednesday she hoped Moscow would take into account WHO recommendations to prioritise public health when organising largescale events | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin defended on Wednesday plans to hold a nationwide vote next month on constitutional reforms that could allow President Vladimir Putin to extend his long rule saying the coronavirus epidemic was expected to ease before it is held | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/kremlin-defends-holding-july-vote-that-could-extend-putins-rule-despite-coronavirus-idUSKBN23A0YY | 2020-06-04 |
The Genevabased WHO was founded in 1948 and Etienne said U.S. ties with PAHO go back further to its founding in Washington in 1902 | Positive | BRASILIA The World Health Organizations regional director for the Americas urged the United States on Tuesday to keep helping countries in the region to fight the novel coronavirus even as the Trump administration leaves the U.N. agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-americas/who-director-for-americas-urges-u-s-help-as-coronavirus-surges-in-region-idUSKBN23929P | 2020-06-03 |
China calls on the international community to provide more political support and funding for the WHO said Zhao | Positive | BEIJING China said on Monday the United States was addicted to following a U.S. decision to leave the World Health Organization and said the withdrawal reveals a pursuit of power politics and unilateralism | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-says-u-s-addicted-to-quitting-over-plan-to-withdraw-from-who-idUSKBN2381P3 | 2020-06-02 |
President Donald Trump announced on Friday the United States would cut ties with the WHO accusing the U.N. agency of becoming a puppet of China | Negative | BEIJING China said on Monday the United States was addicted to following a U.S. decision to leave the World Health Organization and said the withdrawal reveals a pursuit of power politics and unilateralism | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-says-u-s-addicted-to-quitting-over-plan-to-withdraw-from-who-idUSKBN2381P3 | 2020-06-02 |
The WHO has denied Trumps assertions that it promoted Chinese about the novel coronavirus which emerged in China late last year | Negative | BEIJING China said on Monday the United States was addicted to following a U.S. decision to leave the World Health Organization and said the withdrawal reveals a pursuit of power politics and unilateralism | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-says-u-s-addicted-to-quitting-over-plan-to-withdraw-from-who-idUSKBN2381P3 | 2020-06-02 |
NATIONS May 29 U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China | Negative | NATIONS May 29 U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he is terminating the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus saying the WHO had essentially become a puppet organization of China | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/health-coronavirus-trump-who/trump-says-terminating-us-relationship-with-world-health-organization-over-virus-idUSL1N2DB21X | 2020-05-30 |
The WHOs concerns centred on a report published by British journal The Lancet that patients getting the drug had increased death rates and irregular heartbeats | Negative | PARIS Sanofi has temporarily stopped recruiting new COVID19 patients for two clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine and will no longer supply the antimalaria drug to treat COVID19 until concerns about safety are cleared up it said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-hydroxychloroq/exclusive-sanofi-stops-enrolling-covid-19-patients-in-hydroxychloroquine-trials-idUSKBN2352IH | 2020-05-30 |
Trump last month halted funding for the 194member organization then in a May 18 letter gave the WHO 30 days to commit to reforms | Neutral | NATIONS The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organization over the bodys handling of the coronavirus pandemic U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday accusing the U.N. agency of becoming a puppet of China | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/trump-cutting-u-s-ties-with-world-health-organization-over-virus-idUSKBN2352YJ | 2020-05-30 |
Clicking on the link directed readers to a page with the headline WHO says evidence suggests COVID19 originated in animals and was not produced in a | Negative | SHANGHAI Twitter has flagged a tweet written in March by a Chinese government spokesman that suggested the U.S. military brought the novel coronavirus to China as the social media platform ramps up factchecking of posts | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-twitter-china-factcheck/twitter-flags-china-spokesmans-tweet-on-covid-19-idUSKBN23506I | 2020-05-29 |
Google said it continued to see attacks from hackers on medical and healthcare professionals including WHO employees | Negative | Security experts at Alphabet Incs Google sent 1755 warnings in April to users whose accounts were targets of governmentbacked attackers following a resurgence in hacking and phishing attempts related to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/google-sees-resurgence-in-state-backed-hacking-phishing-related-to-covid-19-idUSKBN2340CH | 2020-05-28 |
WHO and other organizations at the center of a global effort to contain the coronavirus have come under a sustained digital bombardment by hackers seeking information about the outbreak | Negative | Security experts at Alphabet Incs Google sent 1755 warnings in April to users whose accounts were targets of governmentbacked attackers following a resurgence in hacking and phishing attempts related to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/google-sees-resurgence-in-state-backed-hacking-phishing-related-to-covid-19-idUSKBN2340CH | 2020-05-28 |
The WHO said its safetyboard review would examine not just Solidarity patients but other hydroxychloroquine studies too to determine if a pattern emerges similar to problems described in The Lancet | Negative | ZURICH The World Health Organization on Tuesday promised a swift review of data on hydroxychloroquine probably by midJune after safety concerns prompted the group to suspend the malaria drugs use in a large trial on COVID19 patients | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hydroxychloroq/who-expects-hydroxychloroquine-safety-findings-by-mid-june-idUSKBN2322EX | 2020-05-27 |
Those already in a 17country study called Solidarity of thousands of patients who have started hydroxychloroquine can finish their treatment the WHO said | Positive | ZURICH The World Health Organization on Tuesday promised a swift review of data on hydroxychloroquine probably by midJune after safety concerns prompted the group to suspend the malaria drugs use in a large trial on COVID19 patients | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hydroxychloroq/who-expects-hydroxychloroquine-safety-findings-by-mid-june-idUSKBN2322EX | 2020-05-27 |
Africa has so far been spared the worst impact of the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is worried the continent could face a silent if its leaders do not prioritize testing for it a WHO envoy said on Monday | Negative | Africa has so far been spared the worst impact of the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is worried the continent could face a silent if its leaders do not prioritize testing for it a WHO envoy said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-fears-silent-virus-epidemic-unless-africa-prioritizes-testing-idUSKBN2311R0 | 2020-05-26 |
The WHOs director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Africa was the region with the fewest diagnosed coronavirus cases accounting for less than 1 | Positive | Africa has so far been spared the worst impact of the coronavirus but the World Health Organization is worried the continent could face a silent if its leaders do not prioritize testing for it a WHO envoy said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-fears-silent-virus-epidemic-unless-africa-prioritizes-testing-idUSKBN2311R0 | 2020-05-26 |
To support the WHO is to support saving lives | Positive | BEIJING The United States should stop wasting time in its fight against the coronavirus and work with China to combat it rather than spreading lies and attacking the country the Chinese governments top diplomat Wang Yi said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-usa/china-tells-u-s-to-stop-wasting-time-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN230076 | 2020-05-25 |
Trump who has accused the agency of being China has threatened to permanently halt funding to the WHO and to reconsider his countrys membership of the agency | Negative | BEIJING The United States should stop wasting time in its fight against the coronavirus and work with China to combat it rather than spreading lies and attacking the country the Chinese governments top diplomat Wang Yi said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-parliament-usa/china-tells-u-s-to-stop-wasting-time-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN230076 | 2020-05-25 |
The WHO did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Pompeos accusations | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China over the coronavirus on Wednesday calling the billion Beijing has pledged to fight the pandemic compared to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars of damage | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-pompeo-china/pompeo-calls-china-virus-response-paltry-compared-to-damage-done-idUSKBN22W2U0 | 2020-05-23 |
About half of African countries are experiencing community transmission of the virus the WHO said | Negative | GENEVA South America has become a new epicenter of the COVID19 pandemic with Brazil hardesthit while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death toll the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-regions/south-america-a-new-covid-epicenter-africa-reaches-100000-cases-who-says-idUSKBN22Y2IV | 2020-05-23 |
South America has become a new epicentre of the said Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergencies expert | Positive | Massive disruptions to global immunisation programmes from the COVID19 pandemic have health experts fearful that much of the developing world will not be able to get a vaccine for the new coronavirus even once one is ready | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-immunisation/disruption-to-global-immunization-system-could-delay-covid-19-vaccinations-idUSKBN22Y25S | 2020-05-23 |
President Donald Trump a WHO critic has threatened to permanently withdraw U.S. funding | Negative | Massive disruptions to global immunisation programmes from the COVID19 pandemic have health experts fearful that much of the developing world will not be able to get a vaccine for the new coronavirus even once one is ready | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-immunisation/disruption-to-global-immunization-system-could-delay-covid-19-vaccinations-idUSKBN22Y25S | 2020-05-23 |
Yemeni authorities have reported 184 coronavirus infections including 30 deaths to the World Health Organization the latest WHO figures showed overnight | Negative | GENEVA The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system has in effect the United Nations said on Friday appealing for urgent funding | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen-un/yemens-health-system-has-in-effect-collapsed-as-covid-spreads-u-n-idUSKBN22Y18V | 2020-05-23 |
The WHO and the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Pompeos accusations | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took fresh aim at China over the coronavirus on Wednesday calling the billion that Beijing has pledged to fight the pandemic compared to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars of damage | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-pompeo-china/pompeo-calls-china-virus-response-paltry-compared-to-damage-done-idUSKBN22W2U0 | 2020-05-21 |
The WHO says it is bound by U.N. protocol and that Taiwan can only be included in WHO meetings if the members make a decision to do so | Neutral | GENEVA The Chinese envoy to the World Health Organization on Tuesday denounced the support shown by the United States and others to Taiwan during its annual ministerial assembly and said that was undermining the global response to the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/china-protests-at-support-of-u-s-and-others-for-taiwan-at-who-idUSKBN22V20H | 2020-05-20 |
Health Secretary Alex Azar did not mention China by name but made clear Washington considered the WHO jointly responsible | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
Azar said the United States supported an independent review of every aspect of WHOs and that Chinas conduct should be on the too | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
The panel endorsed a review but said conducting it now could hamper the WHOs response to the pandemic | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
The amount almost matches the WHOs entire annual programme budget for last year and more than compensates for Trumps freeze of U.S. payments worth about million a year | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
German Health Minister Jens Spahn said the WHO must become more independent from external and that its role in leading and must be strengthened | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. body had sounded the alarm early and we sounded it | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
He urged the WHO and the international community to pressure the Houthis about declaring cases | Negative | ADEN Yemens Saudibacked government accused its Houthi foes of covering up a big outbreak of coronavirus in areas they hold and the United Nations warned that the country could suffer a food security situation due to the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen/yemens-saudi-backed-government-pleads-for-coronavirus-aid-idUSKBN22U0ZQ | 2020-05-19 |
Earlier Trump said the WHO had done a very sad in its handling of the virus and he would make a decision soon on U.S. funding | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days and to reconsider the membership of the United States in the body | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who/trump-threatens-permanent-freeze-of-who-funding-to-weigh-u-s-membership-idUSKBN22V0B0 | 2020-05-19 |
He was addressing a virtual meeting of the WHOs decisionmaking body the World Health Assembly at which Xi said China had acted with openness and transparency and | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
But the WHOs chief critic the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump decried an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak by at least one member | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
In its first report on the handling of the pandemic the oversight committee said the WHO had demonstrated leadership and made important progress in its COVID19 | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday an independent review of the global coronavirus response would begin as soon as possible and it received backing and a hefty pledge of funds from China in the spotlight as the origin of the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/u-s-savages-who-as-it-promises-pandemic-review-but-china-pledges-2-billion-idUSKBN22U111 | 2020-05-19 |
There are 509 confirmed cases and 21 deaths according to WHO data | Negative | DAR ES SALAAM Tanzanias President John Magufuli said on Sunday he plans to reopen universities and allow the resumption of sports and international flights if the decline in new coronavirus infections continues | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzanias-magufuli-plans-to-lift-coronavirus-restrictions-idUSKBN22T0P0 | 2020-05-18 |
Fox News citing a draft letter reported late on Friday that Trump was poised to restore partial funding to the WHO matching Chinas assessed contribution | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday his administration was considering numerous proposals about the World Health Organization including one in which Washington would pay about of its former level | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-trump/trump-says-he-is-considering-restoring-some-funding-to-who-no-decision-made-idUSKBN22S0LD | 2020-05-18 |
During a March 23 call Tedros and Trump had a good and discussion regarding the COVID19 response and nothing was raised on the funding the WHO said in its statement | Positive | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
Tedros has a different than Brundtland another WHO official said | Neutral | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
The WHO in its statement said Tedros asks all countries to share information under the international regulations that member states have agreed to | Positive | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
It has been a big blow to WHO and to said the second WHO official | Negative | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
Tedros is obviously by Trumps move and feels the WHO is being used as a political the person familiar with the discussions said | Neutral | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
The WHO said Tedros has promised to conduct a postpandemic review of the agencys performance including by the WHOs independent oversight body which is standard practice after a health crisis | Negative | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
The Trump administration which has come under fire at home for its own handling of the outbreak isnt easing off its recent attacks on the WHO and China | Negative | By Kate Kelland and and Stephanie Nebehay | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros-special/special-report-caught-in-trump-china-feud-who-leader-under-siege-idUSKBN22R1IL | 2020-05-16 |
The Trump administration will agree to pay up to what China pays in assessed to the WHO Fox News reported quoting from the letter | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trumps administration is set to restore partial funding to the World Health Organization Fox News reported late on Friday citing a draft letter | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-administration-to-restore-partial-funding-to-world-health-organization-fox-news-idUSKBN22S057 | 2020-05-16 |
ChemRar said its trials fall into the second and third phases of the WHOs overview of how clinical trials work as they are testing people infected with the virus | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian company trialling a drug to treat the new coronavirus said on Thursday it was testing it on infected patients in what it called second and thirdphase clinical trials based on World Health Organisation criteria | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-drug/russias-chemrar-says-in-second-third-phase-testing-of-coronavirus-drug-favipiravir-idUSKBN22Q2SW | 2020-05-15 |
Chinas Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Taiwans ruling Democratic Progressive Party refused to do this and so the political foundation for Taiwans WHO participation had ceased to | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans health minister rejected on Friday Chinas main condition for the island to be able to take part in the World Health Organization that it accepts it is part of China ahead of a key meeting of the body during a pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan/taiwan-rejects-chinas-main-condition-for-who-participation-idUSKBN22R0HM | 2020-05-15 |
The WHO says it has no mandate to invite Taiwan to the WHA and that only member states can decide | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans health minister rejected on Friday Chinas main condition for the island to be able to take part in the World Health Organization that it accepts it is part of China ahead of a key meeting of the body during a pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan/taiwan-rejects-chinas-main-condition-for-who-participation-idUSKBN22R0HM | 2020-05-15 |
Washington has halted funding for the WHO a U.N. agency after President Donald Trump accused it of being and promoting Chinas about the outbreak assertions the WHO denies | Negative | NEW YORK An attempt by Estonia and Germany to overcome an impasse between the United States and China at the United Nations Security Council instead appeared on Thursday to have reinforced their stalemate over action on the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-un/u-s-china-deadlock-over-u-n-coronavirus-action-deepens-idUSKBN22Q3LW | 2020-05-15 |
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus The trajectory is in our hands and its everybodys business and we should all contribute to stop this pandemic | Negative | GENEVA The coronavirus that causes COVID19 could become endemic like HIV the World Health Organization said on Wednesday warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a massive to counter it | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-briefing/this-virus-may-never-go-away-who-says-idUSKBN22P2IJ | 2020-05-14 |
We need to get into the mindset that it is going to take some time to come out of this WHO epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove told the briefing | Neutral | GENEVA The coronavirus that causes COVID19 could become endemic like HIV the World Health Organization said on Wednesday warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a massive to counter it | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-briefing/this-virus-may-never-go-away-who-says-idUSKBN22P2IJ | 2020-05-14 |
The virus may never go away WHO | Negative | to add dropped name in paragraph | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/refile-global-markets-asian-stocks-drop-as-virus-recovery-begins-to-look-distant-idUSL4N2CW0OI | 2020-05-14 |
In Geneva the WHO official sounded a note of caution around expectations for a vaccine saying coronaviruses in general are very tricky that are difficult to produce vaccines | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the COVID19 disease and that it was focusing on learning more about four or five of the most promising ones | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-sees-potentially-positive-data-in-treating-coronavirus-idUSKBN22O1HG | 2020-05-13 |
The WHO said in April a vaccine would take at least 12 months | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the COVID19 disease and that it was focusing on learning more about four or five of the most promising ones | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-sees-potentially-positive-data-in-treating-coronavirus-idUSKBN22O1HG | 2020-05-13 |
Democrats have criticized Trump for attacking the WHO during a global health crisis while saying it needs reforms | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
Last month Trump announced that he was suspending aid to the WHO accusing it of being and promoting Chinas about the outbreak assertions the WHO denies | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
The WHO noted that Germany South Korea and China all had such programmes | Neutral | Global alarm was sounded on Monday over a potential second wave of coronavirus cases after Germany relatively successful in slowing the outbreak reported that infections had accelerated again after the first tentative steps to ease a lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/paris-salons-shanghai-disney-reopen-despite-global-alarm-over-second-coronavirus-wave-idUSKBN22N1QT | 2020-05-12 |
Taiwan has been seeking to join a ministerial meeting this month of the WHOs decisionmaking body the World Health Assembly with backing from Washington and several U.S. allies | Positive | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
Testing capabilities are inadequate but the WHO has also urged local authorities to transparently report confirmed cases | Negative | ADEN Yemeni authorities declared Aden interim seat of the Saudibacked government an city on Monday after the number of coronavirus cases there jumped and clashes erupted elsewhere in the south between separatists and government forces | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen/yemen-declares-aden-an-infested-city-as-coronavirus-spreads-clashes-erupt-idUSKBN22N07K | 2020-05-12 |
Taiwan has argued that its exclusion from the WHO has created a dangerous gap in the global fight against the coronavirus | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
Taiwan is excluded from the WHO due to the objections of China which views the island as one of its provinces | Negative | WELLINGTON New Zealands foreign minister on Tuesday said the country has to stand up for itself after China warned its backing of Taiwans participation at the World Health Organization could damage bilateral ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand-china/new-zealand-still-supports-taiwan-at-who-despite-chinese-rebuke-idUSKBN22O0CF | 2020-05-12 |
Taiwan which is not a member of the United Nations has been excluded from the WHO which is a U.N. agency due to objections from China | Negative | WASHINGTON The leaders of U.S. congressional foreign affairs committees wrote to nearly 60 countries on Friday asking them to support Taiwans participation in the World Health Organization citing the need for the broadest effort possible to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-taiwan/u-s-lawmakers-urge-support-for-taiwan-at-who-as-u-s-criticizes-china-idUSKBN22L00T | 2020-05-12 |
This years international atmosphere is relatively beneficial for Taiwans participation and so the pressure on the WHO secretariat and China is greater and Wu said | Negative | BEIJING China berated New Zealand on Monday for its support for Taiwans participation at the World Health Organization saying the country should stop making wrong on the issue to avoid damaging bilateral ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-new-zealand-mofa/china-berates-new-zealand-over-support-for-taiwan-at-who-idUSKBN22N18E | 2020-05-11 |
There seems to be a consistent pattern so far that a low proportion of people so far have these said Maria van Kerkhove a WHO epidemiologist | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that extreme was needed as countries begin to exit from lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus amid global concerns about a second wave of infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-extreme-vigilance-needed-in-exit-from-lockdowns-idUSKBN22N277 | 2020-05-11 |
WHO principal legal officer Steven Solomon told and online news briefing that only member states could decide who attends the World Health Assembly | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organizations director general has no to invite Taiwan to take part in its assembly next week the bodys lawyer said on Monday adding member states had divergent on the selfruled islands participation | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-taiwan-who/who-says-has-no-mandate-to-invite-taiwan-to-assembly-meeting-idUSKBN22N29B | 2020-05-11 |
China berated New Zealand on Monday for its support for Taiwans participation at the WHO saying the country should stop making wrong on the issue to avoid damaging bilateral ties | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organizations director general has no to invite Taiwan to take part in its assembly next week the bodys lawyer said on Monday adding member states had divergent on the selfruled islands participation | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-taiwan-who/who-says-has-no-mandate-to-invite-taiwan-to-assembly-meeting-idUSKBN22N29B | 2020-05-11 |
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the same briefing that lifting restrictions was complex and and that the slow steady lifting of was key to protecting lives and livelihoods | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that extreme was needed as countries begin to exit from lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus amid global concerns about a second wave of infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-extreme-vigilance-needed-in-exit-from-lockdowns-idUSKBN22N277 | 2020-05-11 |
China has denounced Taiwans WHO attempts as a political stunt aimed at promoting the islands formal independence and said it will fail in its efforts | Negative | BEIJING China berated New Zealand on Monday for its support for Taiwans participation at the World Health Organization saying the country should stop making wrong on the issue to avoid damaging bilateral ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-taiwan-new-zealand-mofa/china-berates-new-zealand-over-support-for-taiwan-at-who-idUSKBN22N18E | 2020-05-11 |
In the briefing WHO officials stressed that early studies point to lowerthanexpected antibody levels against the disease within the general population meaning that most people remain susceptible | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that extreme was needed as countries begin to exit from lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus amid global concerns about a second wave of infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-extreme-vigilance-needed-in-exit-from-lockdowns-idUSKBN22N277 | 2020-05-11 |
International organizations including the WHO and World Bank are helping but they say they are hampered by problems finding reliable data to measure the continents needs | Negative | NAIROBI African nations are facing a surge of COVID19 cases with less than one intensive care bed and one ventilator per 100000 people a Reuters survey has found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response-ex/exclusive-virus-exposes-gaping-holes-in-africas-health-systems-idUSKBN22J1GZ | 2020-05-08 |
Pompeo also accused the WHO of being too slow to respond to the disease and said it needs to still demand that there be an in China | Negative | BEIJING China said on Thursday it supports the World Health Organization in trying to pinpoint the origins of the COVID19 pandemic and accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of telling one lie after another in his attacks on Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/china-says-it-backs-who-in-tracing-covid-19-denounces-u-s-lies-idUSKBN22J10G | 2020-05-08 |
As of 1259 GMT the 47 countries had 35097 cases of the novel coronavirus and 1231 deaths according to a Reuters tally based on government statements and WHO data | Negative | NAIROBI The novel coronavirus could kill between 83000 and 190000 people in Africa in the first year and infect between 29 million and 44 million in the first year if it is not contained the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/coronavirus-could-kill-up-to-190000-in-africa-in-first-year-if-not-contained-who-idUSKBN22J31S | 2020-05-08 |
The organization set up by the African Union in 2017 worked with the WHO to rapidly roll out testing | Positive | NAIROBI African nations are facing a surge of COVID19 cases with less than one intensive care bed and one ventilator per 100000 people a Reuters survey has found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response-ex/exclusive-virus-exposes-gaping-holes-in-africas-health-systems-idUSKBN22J1GZ | 2020-05-08 |
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying addressing reporters in Beijing on Thursday said China supported WHO efforts to investigate the origin of the pandemic | Negative | BEIJING China said on Thursday it supports the World Health Organization in trying to pinpoint the origins of the COVID19 pandemic and accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of telling one lie after another in his attacks on Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/china-says-it-backs-who-in-tracing-covid-19-denounces-u-s-lies-idUSKBN22J10G | 2020-05-08 |
The WHO estimates around of COVID19 patients will require hospitalization and oxygen support and about will need a ventilator generally found in an intensive care unit | Positive | NAIROBI African nations are facing a surge of COVID19 cases with less than one intensive care bed and one ventilator per 100000 people a Reuters survey has found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response-ex/exclusive-virus-exposes-gaping-holes-in-africas-health-systems-idUSKBN22J1GZ | 2020-05-08 |
The WHO has urged countries to investigate any early suspicious cases and called earlier comments about a possible laboratory source by Pompeo | Negative | BEIJING China said on Thursday it supports the World Health Organization in trying to pinpoint the origins of the COVID19 pandemic and accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of telling one lie after another in his attacks on Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/china-says-it-backs-who-in-tracing-covid-19-denounces-u-s-lies-idUSKBN22J10G | 2020-05-08 |
The East African nation of Tanzania publicly criticised by the WHO for not restricting large gatherings has sometimes gone for days without updating its coronavirus figures | Negative | NAIROBI African nations are facing a surge of COVID19 cases with less than one intensive care bed and one ventilator per 100000 people a Reuters survey has found | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response-ex/exclusive-virus-exposes-gaping-holes-in-africas-health-systems-idUSKBN22J1GZ | 2020-05-08 |
Still this could translate into a prolonged yearslong outbreak WHO said | Negative | NAIROBI The novel coronavirus could kill between 83000 and 190000 people in Africa in the first year and infect between 29 million and 44 million in the first year if it is not contained the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/coronavirus-could-kill-up-to-190000-in-africa-in-first-year-if-not-contained-who-idUSKBN22J31S | 2020-05-08 |
Trump suspended U.S. contributions to the WHO on April 14 accusing it of promoting Chinas about the coronavirus outbreak and saying his administration would launch a review of the organization | Negative | WASHINGTON Five U.S. Senate Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday seeking a review of U.S. participation in the World Health Organization and other international institutions after President Donald Trumps administration suspended U.S. contributions to the U.N. health agency and accused it of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/republicans-want-review-of-aid-to-who-democrat-may-subpoena-pompeo-idUSKBN22I3AJ | 2020-05-07 |
WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove supported his concerns about the disease which has infected 3 | Negative | The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that countries emerging from restrictions to halt the new coronavirus must proceed extremely or risk a rapid rise in new cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-against-rushed-end-to-coronavirus-lockdowns-idUSKBN22I2DZ | 2020-05-07 |
The WHO which is preparing another mission to China to discover the animal origin of the virus treated the country no differently to any of its 194 members Tedros said | Positive | The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that countries emerging from restrictions to halt the new coronavirus must proceed extremely or risk a rapid rise in new cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-against-rushed-end-to-coronavirus-lockdowns-idUSKBN22I2DZ | 2020-05-07 |
The rule we have in WHO and other UN agencies is that when a member state reports we post as Tedros said | Neutral | The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that countries emerging from restrictions to halt the new coronavirus must proceed extremely or risk a rapid rise in new cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-warns-against-rushed-end-to-coronavirus-lockdowns-idUSKBN22I2DZ | 2020-05-07 |
The WHO should cast off the Chinese governments and let Taiwan fully participate in fighting the virus Ou said | Negative | TAIPEI Only Taiwans democraticallyelected government can represent its people on the world stage not China its foreign ministry said on Tuesday calling on the World Health Organization to cast Chinas control during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/taiwan-rebuffs-who-says-china-has-no-right-to-represent-it-idUSKBN22H0K9 | 2020-05-06 |
Trump has halted U.S. funding to the WHO and accused of it being Chinacentric | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged China to be transparent about the origins of the novel coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than a quarter of a million people since it started in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-origin/trump-urges-china-to-reveal-all-about-origin-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H1Y5 | 2020-05-06 |
WHO said on Tuesday that a report that COVID19 had emerged in December in France was not and urged countries to investigate early | Positive | More than 3 | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN22F0AI | 2020-05-06 |
Indigenous leaders in Brazil have asked the WHO to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities | Negative | More than 3 | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN22F0AI | 2020-05-06 |
The disease later identified as COVID19 was first reported by Chinese authorities to the WHO on Dec | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that a report that COVID19 had emerged in December in France sooner than previously thought was not and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-urges-countries-to-investigate-early-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN22H134 | 2020-05-06 |
The WHO said on Tuesday just 200 tests for infection with the coronavirus had been carried out and results received across Yemen | Negative | ADEN Authorities in Houthiheld north Yemen confirmed their first case of the new coronavirus on Tuesday a Somali national found dead in a Sanaa hotel while the government in the south of the wartorn nation reported nine new infections | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen/yemens-houthis-report-first-coronavirus-case-with-death-in-sanaa-hotel-idUSKBN22H1HL | 2020-05-06 |
This gives a whole new picture on WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a U.N. briefing in Geneva referring to the French report | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that a report that COVID19 had emerged in December in France sooner than previously thought was not and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-urges-countries-to-investigate-early-covid-19-cases-idUSKBN22H134 | 2020-05-06 |
As an evidencebased Ryan said the WHO was keen to receive any information on the origin of the virus as this was exceptionally for its future control | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing that the new coronavirus had emerged from a Chinese laboratory were and called for a sciencebased inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-pompeo-remarks-on-virus-origin-speculative-seeks-data-idUSKBN22G29E | 2020-05-05 |
Trump has said he will cut off funding for the World Health Organization which he called very something WHO officials have denied | Negative | BEIJING An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that could tip relations with the United States into confrontation people familiar with the paper told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-sentiment-ex/exclusive-internal-chinese-report-warns-beijing-faces-tiananmen-like-global-backlash-over-virus-idUSKBN22G19C | 2020-05-05 |
Scientists have advised the WHO that genome sequencing shows the virus to be of natural | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing that the new coronavirus had emerged from a Chinese laboratory were and called for a sciencebased inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-pompeo-remarks-on-virus-origin-speculative-seeks-data-idUSKBN22G29E | 2020-05-05 |
In a letter to WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus they asked for help to provide personal protective equipment that is unavailable to health workers in tribal reservations and villages | Positive | BRASILIA Indigenous leaders in Brazil asked the World Health Organization on Monday to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-indigenous/brazils-indigenous-people-call-for-who-emergency-fund-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H09W | 2020-05-05 |
Ryan said the WHO welcomed recent clinical trial data for Gilead Sciences Incs antiviral drug remdesivir saying there were signals of for a potential use against COVID19 | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing that the new coronavirus had emerged from a Chinese laboratory were and called for a sciencebased inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-pompeo-remarks-on-virus-origin-speculative-seeks-data-idUSKBN22G29E | 2020-05-05 |
It is a real Joenia Wapichana the leader of the appeal to the WHO and the first indigenous woman elected to Brazils Congress told Reuters | Positive | BRASILIA Indigenous leaders in Brazil asked the World Health Organization on Monday to set up an emergency fund to help protect their communities from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-indigenous/brazils-indigenous-people-call-for-who-emergency-fund-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN22H09W | 2020-05-05 |
Steven Solomon the WHOs principal legal officer said two countries had proposed consideration of letting Taiwan attend the WHOs May 1819 annual health assembly as an observer | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing that the new coronavirus had emerged from a Chinese laboratory were and called for a sciencebased inquiry | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-says-pompeo-remarks-on-virus-origin-speculative-seeks-data-idUSKBN22G29E | 2020-05-05 |
The WHO said it supported scientifically proven traditional medicine adding that complementary and alternative medicine had many benefits | Positive | PARIS The World Health Organization said on Monday that medicinal plants such as Artemisia annua touted as possible treatments for COVID19 should be tested for efficacy and side effects | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-plants/who-cautions-against-untested-covid-19-traditional-remedies-idUSKBN22G2SG | 2020-05-05 |
Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the COVID19 pandemic and to cautiously resume some sort of normal life but the new coronavirus will pose significant risks until vaccines are developed the WHOs top emergencies expert said on Sunday | Positive | Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the COVID19 pandemic and to cautiously resume some sort of normal life but the new coronavirus will pose significant risks until vaccines are developed the WHOs top emergencies expert said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-ryan/whos-ryan-says-world-is-in-fight-of-our-lives-but-there-is-hope-idUSKBN22F0PG | 2020-05-04 |
The WHO warned on Friday that countries must lift lockdowns gradually while still being on the for COVID19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back | Negative | Parts of the world are starting to emerge from the COVID19 pandemic and to cautiously resume some sort of normal life but the new coronavirus will pose significant risks until vaccines are developed the WHOs top emergencies expert said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-ryan/whos-ryan-says-world-is-in-fight-of-our-lives-but-there-is-hope-idUSKBN22F0PG | 2020-05-04 |
The WHO recognises the difficulty for governments to maintain lockdowns during the pandemic for social psychological and economic Ryan said | Negative | Countries must lift lockdowns gradually while still being on the for COVID19 and ready to restore restrictions if the virus jumps back the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/countries-must-ease-lockdowns-slowly-be-ready-for-virus-to-jump-back-who-idUSKBN22D5VU | 2020-05-02 |
If we are to reach a normal in many ways Sweden represents a future said Mike Ryan the WHOs top emergencies expert | Positive | STOCKHOLM Per Arne Fredin has been at the sharp end of Swedens policy to buck the norm and avoid a COVID19 lockdown a decision that has been hailed as both visionary and irresponsible by public figures around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-economy/as-sweden-goes-it-alone-a-covid-19-survivor-and-trucking-boss-balances-risk-idUSKBN22D4KN | 2020-05-01 |
WHO says Swedens way could be a model | Neutral | story published late on | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/health-coronavirus-sweden-economy/rpt-as-sweden-goes-it-alone-a-covid-19-survivor-and-trucking-boss-balances-risk-idUSL8N2CIAPU | 2020-05-01 |
We sounded the alarm early and we sounded it he said WHO is committed to transparency and accountability | Negative | GENEVA April 29 The chief of the World Health Organization defended the bodys record in its response to the new coronavirus in a news briefing on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-who/who-says-it-acted-quickly-and-decisively-on-new-coronavirus-idUSZ8N2BQ005 | 2020-04-30 |
The WHOs clinical network has discussed the report from Britain about a small number of children with an inflammatory response WHO epidemiologist Dr | Positive | GENEVA The vast of children with COVID19 have mild cases and recover completely but a small number in a few countries have developed a rare inflammatory syndrome the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/covid-19-complication-seen-in-children-is-rare-who-says-idUSKBN22B2KD | 2020-04-30 |
From the beginning the WHO has acted quickly and decisively to respond to warn the he said | Negative | GENEVA The vast of children with COVID19 have mild cases and recover completely but a small number in a few countries have developed a rare inflammatory syndrome the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/covid-19-complication-seen-in-children-is-rare-who-says-idUSKBN22B2KD | 2020-04-30 |
WHO officials have denied the claims and China insists it has been transparent and open | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee launched an investigation on Monday of President Donald Trumps blocking of funds for the World Health Organization giving the State Department a week to provide information about the decision as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/u-s-house-committee-launches-probe-of-trump-who-aid-cutoff-idUSKCN2292M6 | 2020-04-28 |
The WHO representative office in Indonesia also said at the weekend that deaths of suspected coronavirus sufferers should be disclosed | Negative | More than 2200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease a Reuters review of data from 16 of the countrys 34 provinces showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-casualti/exclusive-more-than-2200-indonesians-have-died-with-coronavirus-symptoms-data-shows-idUSKCN22A04N | 2020-04-28 |
The United States is the WHOs biggest donor | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee launched an investigation on Monday of President Donald Trumps blocking of funds for the World Health Organization giving the State Department a week to provide information about the decision as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/u-s-house-committee-launches-probe-of-trump-who-aid-cutoff-idUSKCN2292M6 | 2020-04-28 |
Adisasmito said the government was not hiding data and that he was unaware the WHO had called for suspected COVID19 death statistics to be made public | Negative | More than 2200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease a Reuters review of data from 16 of the countrys 34 provinces showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-casualti/exclusive-more-than-2200-indonesians-have-died-with-coronavirus-symptoms-data-shows-idUSKCN22A04N | 2020-04-28 |
But Trumps fellow Republicans have largely backed the president praising his handling of the health crisis and calling on WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to resign | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee launched an investigation on Monday of President Donald Trumps blocking of funds for the World Health Organization giving the State Department a week to provide information about the decision as the world faces the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/u-s-house-committee-launches-probe-of-trump-who-aid-cutoff-idUSKCN2292M6 | 2020-04-28 |
On Tuesday the WHO declined to offer any comment beyond its weekend advice made in its latest situation report on Indonesia | Negative | More than 2200 Indonesians have died with acute symptoms of COVID19 but were not recorded as victims of the disease a Reuters review of data from 16 of the countrys 34 provinces showed | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-casualti/exclusive-more-than-2200-indonesians-have-died-with-coronavirus-symptoms-data-shows-idUSKCN22A04N | 2020-04-28 |
WHOs Musani said Yemen has 570 intensive care units and 17000 beds nationwide half of them already occupied | Negative | When doctors first confirmed Yemeni port official Saleh had contracted COVID19 authorities raced to trace his movements to try and protect one of the worlds most vulnerable countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen-case/it-is-still-a-mystery-war-hit-yemen-struggles-to-trace-covid-19-infection-idUSKCN2291SN | 2020-04-28 |
A WHO spokeswoman said Fridays announcement was the beginning of a global collaboration and we would welcome more countries coming on board | Positive | In the race to develop a vaccine to end the COVID19 pandemic governments charities and Big Pharma firms are sinking billions of dollars into bets with extraordinarily low odds of success | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-specialrep/special-report-countries-companies-risk-billions-in-race-for-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKCN2270U1 | 2020-04-26 |
U.S. President Donald Trump has lambasted the WHO as being slow to react to the outbreak and being and announced a suspension of funding | Negative | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
We remain deeply concerned about the WHOs effectiveness given that its gross failures helped fuel the current he later said | Negative | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
Tedros has steadfastly defended the WHOs handling of the pandemic and repeatedly committed to conducting a postpandemic evaluation as the agency does with all crises | Neutral | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
The WHO appears to have shown remarkable deference to the Chinese government throughout this the Republican senators wrote | Negative | WASHINGTON Leading Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday asked the United Nations to conduct an independent review of the World Health Organization response to the coronavirus pandemic saying the body appeared to have shown remarkable to China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-republicans/republican-senators-ask-u-n-chief-for-independent-who-review-panel-idUSKCN2262JU | 2020-04-25 |
World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 but the United States did not take part in the launch of the WHO initiative | Positive | WASHINGTON Leading Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday asked the United Nations to conduct an independent review of the World Health Organization response to the coronavirus pandemic saying the body appeared to have shown remarkable to China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-republicans/republican-senators-ask-u-n-chief-for-independent-who-review-panel-idUSKCN2262JU | 2020-04-25 |
We are facing a common threat which we can only defeat with a common WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said as he opened the virtual meeting | Positive | World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests drugs and vaccines against COVID19 and to share them around the globe but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization initiative | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-leaders-launch-plan-to-speed-covid-19-drugs-vaccine-u-s-stays-away-idUSKCN2261M7 | 2020-04-25 |
President Donald Trump said last week that U.S. would halt funding to the WHO over its handling of the pandemic potentially cutting off roughly of its budget | Negative | ADDIS ABABA African nations that lack ventilators to treat COVID19 patients will receive some from the Jack Ma Foundation an African Union official said on Thursday as Nigeria stressed Africas dependence on a properlyfunded World Health Organization help it fight the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/african-nations-to-get-ventilators-from-jack-ma-foundation-stress-need-for-who-help-idUSKCN22522D | 2020-04-24 |
The WHO has denied the Trump administrations charges and China insists it has been transparent and open | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work to set up an alternative to the U.N. body instead | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-pompeo/pompeo-says-u-s-may-never-restore-who-funds-after-cutoff-over-pandemic-idUSKCN2252GR | 2020-04-24 |
If the funding to WHO is affected in the way it may be then there will be a huge price for humanity to pay | Positive | ADDIS ABABA African nations that lack ventilators to treat COVID19 patients will receive some from the Jack Ma Foundation an African Union official said on Thursday as Nigeria stressed Africas dependence on a properlyfunded World Health Organization help it fight the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/african-nations-to-get-ventilators-from-jack-ma-foundation-stress-need-for-who-help-idUSKCN22522D | 2020-04-24 |
WHO is committed to ensuring that as medicines and vaccines are developed theyre shared equitably with all countries and Tedros said at the time | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it would announce a landmark on Friday to speed development of safe effective drugs tests and vaccines to prevent diagnose and treat COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-covid/who-to-launch-initiative-to-share-covid-19-drugs-tests-and-vaccines-statement-idUSKCN22537Z | 2020-04-24 |
The United States has been the biggest overall donor to the WHO contributing over million in 2019 roughly of its budget | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Democrats accused the Trump administration of trying to the World Health Organization to distract from its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and urged an immediate restoration of funding to the U.N. health body according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-congress/u-s-democrats-back-scapegoat-who-as-trump-administration-keeps-up-attacks-idUSKCN2252RO | 2020-04-24 |
The initiative is expected to include a stockpile for use in poor countries such as the WHO currently has for influenza vaccines should a flu virus evolve into a pandemic | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it would announce a landmark on Friday to speed development of safe effective drugs tests and vaccines to prevent diagnose and treat COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-covid/who-to-launch-initiative-to-share-covid-19-drugs-tests-and-vaccines-statement-idUSKCN22537Z | 2020-04-24 |
The WHO said the draft manuscript is undergoing peer review before it will be officially released | Positive | But details were thin and suggested limitations in interpreting the data that has not yet been fully reviewed | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-gilead-sciences/gilead-disputes-report-that-its-drug-flopped-in-leaked-coronavirus-trial-idUSKCN225326 | 2020-04-24 |
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control warned of dire consequences should the WHO not receive full funding | Negative | ADDIS ABABA African nations that lack ventilators to treat COVID19 patients will receive some from the Jack Ma Foundation an African Union official said on Thursday as Nigeria stressed Africas dependence on a properlyfunded World Health Organization help it fight the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/african-nations-to-get-ventilators-from-jack-ma-foundation-stress-need-for-who-help-idUSKCN22522D | 2020-04-24 |
WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work to set up an alternative to the U.N. body instead | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the COVID19 pandemic shows the need to overhaul the World Health Organization warning that Washington may never restore WHO funding and could even work to set up an alternative to the U.N. body instead | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-pompeo/pompeo-says-u-s-may-never-restore-who-funds-after-cutoff-over-pandemic-idUSKCN2252GR | 2020-04-24 |
Even after Beijing notified the WHO of the outbreak Pompeo said It did not share all of the information it had | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hit out at Beijing again on Wednesday over the coronavirus outbreak and accused it of taking advantage of the pandemic to bully neighbors even as he welcomed Chinas provision of essential medical supplies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-pompeo/pompeo-renews-criticism-of-china-over-virus-but-welcomes-supplies-idUSKCN2242G9 | 2020-04-23 |
Cui said China had been open pointing to calls between the Chinese government and both Washington and the WHO in early January as well as daily briefings on the virus | Positive | WASHINGTON Chinas ambassador to the United States took a thinly veiled swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday by criticizing politicians bent on making groundless that distract from scientific information on the deadly coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/chinese-envoy-takes-veiled-swipe-at-trump-for-politicizing-coronavirus-idUSKCN2232UA | 2020-04-22 |
It seeks unspecified damages for what they called WHOs harm to the roughly 756000 adult residents in Westchester County who would make up the class | Negative | NEW YORK Residents of a suburban New York City county that was one of the earliest U.S. hot spots for the coronavirus sued the World Health Organization on Monday accusing it of gross negligence in covering up and responding to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-westchester-lawsui/suburban-nyc-county-residents-sue-who-over-coronavirus-pandemic-response-idUSKBN2222P1 | 2020-04-21 |
As of now no conclusions could be made said Takeshi Kasai WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific | Neutral | BEIJING The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it is not possible to determine the precise source of the new coronavirus at this stage | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china/who-says-currently-not-possible-to-determine-precise-source-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN2230CW | 2020-04-21 |
More than 600 hospitals are now ready to enrol patients in WHOs socalled Solidarity Trial of drugs against the disease he added | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
She also said the complaint did not detail the alleged harm suffered by the individual plaintiffs or show what legal duty the WHO owed to them | Neutral | NEW YORK Residents of a suburban New York City county that was one of the earliest U.S. hot spots for the coronavirus sued the World Health Organization on Monday accusing it of gross negligence in covering up and responding to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-westchester-lawsui/suburban-nyc-county-residents-sue-who-over-coronavirus-pandemic-response-idUSKBN2222P1 | 2020-04-21 |
But Japan is not yet in the stage of a largescale community outbreak Takeshi Kasai WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific told an online press conference | Negative | BEIJING The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it was concerned about the increasing number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Japan | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-japan/who-says-concerned-about-rising-confirmed-cases-in-japan-idUSKBN2230BV | 2020-04-21 |
GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | Neutral | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
They also accused the WHO of conspiring with Chinas government which was not named as a defendant to cover up COVID19s severity | Negative | NEW YORK Residents of a suburban New York City county that was one of the earliest U.S. hot spots for the coronavirus sued the World Health Organization on Monday accusing it of gross negligence in covering up and responding to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-westchester-lawsui/suburban-nyc-county-residents-sue-who-over-coronavirus-pandemic-response-idUSKBN2222P1 | 2020-04-21 |
Having U.S. CDC staff means there is nothing hidden from the U.S. from day Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral told a news conference | Neutral | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
The WHO did not immediately respond to requests for comment | Neutral | NEW YORK Residents of a suburban New York City county that was one of the earliest U.S. hot spots for the coronavirus sued the World Health Organization on Monday accusing it of gross negligence in covering up and responding to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-westchester-lawsui/suburban-nyc-county-residents-sue-who-over-coronavirus-pandemic-response-idUSKBN2222P1 | 2020-04-21 |
The United States the WHOs biggest donor by far now has the worlds largest epidemic of COVID19 the disease caused by the coronavirus | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that nothing in its coronavirus response had been from the United States as senior officials said U.S. technical experts had been an important part of the WHOs effort | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/nothing-hidden-from-member-states-cdc-experts-on-board-who-chief-idUSKBN2222HD | 2020-04-21 |
We are using all the options to get him out of the said Boubacar Diallo deputy incident manager for the WHOs Ebola response operation | Negative | BENI Democratic Republic of Congo An Ebola flareup in eastern Congo may spread again after a patient escaped from a clinic complicating efforts to contain the disease that has infected six people since last week the World Health Organization said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-ebola-congo/escape-of-ebola-patient-in-congo-sparks-fear-of-further-infection-idUSKBN2210R6 | 2020-04-20 |
Maria van Kerkhove a WHO epidemiologist who took part in an international mission to China in February said of Chinas revised This was done in attempt to leave no case undocumented | Positive | A sharp upward revision in Chinas coronavirus death toll on Friday was an attempt to leave no case after medical services in Wuhan were overwhelmed at the start of the outbreak the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-who/chinas-revised-covid-figures-are-a-bid-to-leave-no-case-undocumented-who-idUSKBN21Z2ZI | 2020-04-18 |
We must firmly back the WHO for now | Positive | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japan-pm-abe-backs-who-on-coronavirus-in-contrast-with-ally-trump-idUSKBN21Z1JF | 2020-04-18 |
Any wet markets allowed to reopen after lockdowns must conform to stringent food and hygiene standards WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Neutral | A sharp upward revision in Chinas coronavirus death toll on Friday was an attempt to leave no case after medical services in Wuhan were overwhelmed at the start of the outbreak the World Health Organization said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-who/chinas-revised-covid-figures-are-a-bid-to-leave-no-case-undocumented-who-idUSKBN21Z2ZI | 2020-04-18 |
Theres only the WHO that can serve as an international to address the pandemic he said | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japan-pm-abe-backs-who-on-coronavirus-in-contrast-with-ally-trump-idUSKBN21Z1JF | 2020-04-18 |
Trump said this week he would halt U.S. funding to the Genevabased WHO over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japan-pm-abe-backs-who-on-coronavirus-in-contrast-with-ally-trump-idUSKBN21Z1JF | 2020-04-18 |
There are various views on the WHO such as it may not be politically Abe said but he rejected the idea of Japan reducing its funding | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support on Friday for the role of the World Health Organization in the campaign against the new coronavirus in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump who has vowed to cut U.S. funding to the agency | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-abe/japan-pm-abe-backs-who-on-coronavirus-in-contrast-with-ally-trump-idUSKBN21Z1JF | 2020-04-18 |
They said the WHO may need reorganization but that Trump should have waited until after the current crisis which has killed more than 138000 people globally and devastated economies | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican U.S. lawmakers echoed President Donald Trumps criticism of the World Health Organization on Thursday with some suggesting he withhold aid until the U.N. agencys director general resigns while others called for an international investigation of its handling of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-congress/backing-trump-u-s-republicans-call-for-who-chief-to-resign-idUSKBN21Y39W | 2020-04-17 |
The United States contributed more than million to the WHO in 2019 but Trump has accused it of promoting Chinese about the virus | Negative | BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the need for more global cooperation to tackle the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and voiced support for the World Health Organisation after the United States cut its funding | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany/germanys-merkel-backs-who-as-calls-for-more-coronavirus-cooperation-idUSKBN21Y2QD | 2020-04-17 |
Europe is in eye of the storm with the number of cases nearing a million and should move with extreme caution when considering easing lockdowns the WHOs regional director said | Negative | Reported cases of the coronavirus crossed 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21Y0I1 | 2020-04-17 |
The WHO now has more than 7000 people working in 150 country offices six regional offices and Geneva headquarters | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
The United States is the WHOs biggest overall donor | Positive | MOSCOW Russia on Wednesday condemned U.S President Donald Trump for cutting funding to the World Health Organisation saying his decision was selfish and hurt a body that many countries were looking to for leadership amid the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-trump/russia-says-trump-move-to-cut-who-funding-over-coronavirus-is-selfish-idUSKCN21X187 | 2020-04-16 |
After gradually becoming more hostile toward the Genevabased WHO Trump accused it on Tuesday of promoting Chinese about the virus saying this had probably worsened the outbreak | Negative | The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday he regrets U.S. President Donald Trumps decision to pull funding for the agency but that now is the time for the world to unite in its fight against the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/who-regrets-trump-funding-halt-as-global-coronavirus-cases-top-2-million-idUSKCN21X0AL | 2020-04-16 |
The WHOs emergency programme is also seeking to stamp out other deadly infectious disease outbreaks including Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
The senior administration officials said the U.S. Congress was unable to stop them from redirecting WHO funding elsewhere | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
The WHOs budget is biennial spanning a twoyear period | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
This is of course an important time for the WHO to be doing its job | Positive | LONDON China is trying to exploit the global crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus outbreak by wresting control of companies such as Imagination Technologies and changing the way the internet works a senior British lawmaker said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-britain/british-lawmaker-says-china-is-trying-to-exploit-the-covid-19-crisis-idUSKCN21X13H | 2020-04-16 |
The WHO said the world stood at a pivotal and countries that eased restrictions should wait at least two weeks to evaluate the impact before easing further | Negative | The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday he regrets U.S. President Donald Trumps decision to pull funding for the agency but that now is the time for the world to unite in its fight against the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/who-regrets-trump-funding-halt-as-global-coronavirus-cases-top-2-million-idUSKCN21X0AL | 2020-04-16 |
Some Democrats disagreed promising they would try to include funding for the WHO in the next coronavirus relief bill | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
socalled assessed from member states which go towards keeping up the WHOs core functions | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
I understand his concerns with the way that the WHO has failed to call out China or indeed recognise the success that has been going on in Taiwan amongst other places | Negative | LONDON China is trying to exploit the global crisis triggered by the novel coronavirus outbreak by wresting control of companies such as Imagination Technologies and changing the way the internet works a senior British lawmaker said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-britain/british-lawmaker-says-china-is-trying-to-exploit-the-covid-19-crisis-idUSKCN21X13H | 2020-04-16 |
Washington has already paid the Genevabased WHO some million this year the officials said half of what it is required to pay for 2020 known as an assessed contribution | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a halt in U.S. funding to the WHO saying it had failed in its basic in allowing the pandemic to take hold | Negative | LONDON Pulling funding from the World Health Organization is a dangerous and nonsensical move when the world is facing the health crisis brought by the COVID19 disease pandemic Melinda Gates said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-gates/gates-ups-pandemic-funds-to-250-million-says-trump-who-move-makes-no-sense-idUSKCN21X3FK | 2020-04-16 |
The sources said the U.S. Agency for International Development had been due to make a voluntary payment last week of million to the WHO for and it was now blocked | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
Almost billion of the 20202021 budget is earmarked for WHO operations across Africa the worlds poorest continent with the highest rates of underfive mortality from vaccinepreventable diseases | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
It was not immediately clear how much voluntary funding the United States had already provided for WHO programs in 2020 | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
Heres what we do and dont know about what this might mean for the WHO and its programmes around the | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
U.S. President Donald Trumps move to halt funding to the WHO over its handling of the pandemic prompted condemnation from world leaders | Negative | Reported cases of the coronavirus crossed 2 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKCN21Y0I1 | 2020-04-16 |
Polio eradication remains a major WHO programme and the United States is a key contributor to this effort | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump has told his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-funding-explai/explainer-what-the-u-s-funds-freeze-could-mean-for-who-and-its-work-idUSKCN21X2A0 | 2020-04-16 |
Trump on Tuesday accused the WHO of promoting Chinas about the virus saying it likely led to a wider outbreak than otherwise would have occurred | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States could redirect to other aid groups some million it would have paid the World Health Organization this year senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump halted funding for the U.N. agency over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/u-s-funds-that-would-have-gone-to-who-could-be-given-to-aid-groups-trump-officials-idUSKCN21X2Z3 | 2020-04-16 |
The United States is the biggest overall donor to the WHO contributing more than million in 2019 roughly of its budget | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic drawing condemnation from infectious disease experts as the global death toll continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/trump-cuts-who-funding-over-coronavirus-global-death-toll-mounts-idUSKCN21X0AL | 2020-04-15 |
The WHO failed in this basic duty and must be held Trump told a White House news conference on Tuesday | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic drawing condemnation from infectious disease experts as the global death toll continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/trump-cuts-who-funding-over-coronavirus-global-death-toll-mounts-idUSKCN21X0AL | 2020-04-15 |
Trump also said he was halting U.S. funding to the WHO which he criticized for not sharing information in a timely manner to prevent the outbreak | Negative | U.S. coronavirus deaths set a singleday record on Tuesday a grim milestone as the country debated how to reopen its economy and as Spain and Austria allowed partial returns to work but the UK France and India extended lockdowns | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-deaths-set-record-daily-increase-spain-and-austria-ease-restrictions-idUSKCN21W16E | 2020-04-15 |
Trump said the WHO failed in its basic duty and it must be held accountable | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who-reaction/factbox-global-reaction-to-trump-withdrawing-who-funding-idUSKCN21X0CN | 2020-04-15 |
The WHO said the number of new cases was tailing off in some parts of Europe including Italy and Spain but outbreaks were growing in Britain and Turkey | Negative | U.S. coronavirus deaths set a singleday record on Tuesday a grim milestone as the country debated how to reopen its economy and as Spain and Austria allowed partial returns to work but the UK France and India extended lockdowns | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-deaths-set-record-daily-increase-spain-and-austria-ease-restrictions-idUSKCN21W16E | 2020-04-15 |
The United States is the biggest overall donor to the Genevabased WHO contributing more than million in 2019 roughly of its budget | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who-reaction/factbox-global-reaction-to-trump-withdrawing-who-funding-idUSKCN21X0CN | 2020-04-15 |
Not the to reduce resources for WHO operations | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who-reaction/factbox-global-reaction-to-trump-withdrawing-who-funding-idUSKCN21X0CN | 2020-04-15 |
But that said the WHO also as an organisation does a lot of important work including here in our region in the Pacific and we work closely with Morrison said | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-who-reaction/factbox-global-reaction-to-trump-withdrawing-who-funding-idUSKCN21X0CN | 2020-04-15 |
As COVID19 is a new disease we need more epidemiological data to draw any conclusions of virus shedding the WHO said | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Saturday that it was looking into reports of some COVID19 patients testing positive again after initially testing negative for the disease while being considered for discharge | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-is-investigating-reports-of-recovered-covid-patients-testing-positive-again-idUSKCN21T0F1 | 2020-04-12 |
The United Kingdoms generous contribution is a strong statement that this is a global threat that demands a global Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHOs Director General said | Positive | LONDON Britain said on Sunday it was pledging 200 million pounds to the World Health Organisation and charities to help slow the spread of the coronavirus in vulnerable countries and so help prevent a second wave of infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-aid/uk-pledges-200-million-pounds-in-aid-to-help-stop-second-coronavirus-wave-idUSKCN21T0WU | 2020-04-12 |
The WHOs Ryan said it and the Congo government were ready to respond should the Ebola situation deteriorate | Negative | BENI The first person to contract Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo in more than 50 days has died the government said on Friday ending hopes that the second worst outbreak of the disease in history might be over | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-ebola-congo/ebola-patient-dies-in-congo-first-case-in-50-days-idUSKCN21S1P5 | 2020-04-11 |
Taiwans exclusion from the WHO due to Chinas objections has infuriated the Taipei government during the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | China has accused Taiwan of attacking the World Health Organization seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/china-says-taiwan-attacks-on-who-are-venomous-aimed-at-independence-idUSKCN21S01P | 2020-04-10 |
Falsely claiming to be Taiwanese and openly admitting to racist attacks on WHO Director General Tedros and begging forgiveness seriously damages our countrys international it added in a statement | Negative | China has accused Taiwan of attacking the World Health Organization seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/china-says-taiwan-attacks-on-who-are-venomous-aimed-at-independence-idUSKCN21S01P | 2020-04-10 |
China has accused Taiwan of attacking the World Health Organization seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island | Negative | China has accused Taiwan of attacking the World Health Organization seeking independence and conniving with internet users to spread racist comments after the WHO chief said racist slurs against him had come from the island | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/china-says-taiwan-attacks-on-who-are-venomous-aimed-at-independence-idUSKCN21S01P | 2020-04-10 |
The WHO denies this | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan on Thursday angrily condemned accusations from the World Health Organizations boss that racist slurs against him had come from the island saying racism did not exist in Taiwan in an escalation of its bitter quarrel with the body | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/taiwan-rebuffs-accusations-it-racially-attacked-who-chief-idUSKCN21R04R | 2020-04-09 |
Taiwans exclusion from the WHO due to objections from China which claims the island as its own has infuriated the Taipei government during the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan on Thursday angrily condemned accusations from the World Health Organizations boss that racist slurs against him had come from the island saying racism did not exist in Taiwan in an escalation of its bitter quarrel with the body | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/taiwan-rebuffs-accusations-it-racially-attacked-who-chief-idUSKCN21R04R | 2020-04-09 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been lavish in his praise of China from early in the outbreak praising President Xi Jinpings rare | Positive | GENEVA World Health Organization officials on Wednesday denied that the body was and said that the acute phase of a pandemic was not the time to cut funding after U.S. President Donald Trump said he may put contributions on hold | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-europe/who-rejects-china-centric-charge-after-trump-criticism-idUSKBN21Q1A9 | 2020-04-09 |
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for unity and a halt to of the global health crisis specifically urging China and the United States to show honest | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trumps criticism and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-head-defends-handling-of-coronavirus-pandemic-against-trump-criticism-idUSKCN21Q2UJ | 2020-04-09 |
On Wednesday WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus rejected racist against him which he said had originated in Taiwan | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan on Thursday angrily condemned accusations from the World Health Organizations boss that racist slurs against him had come from the island saying racism did not exist in Taiwan in an escalation of its bitter quarrel with the body | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/taiwan-rebuffs-accusations-it-racially-attacked-who-chief-idUSKCN21R04R | 2020-04-09 |
Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable according to a study published on Wednesday prompting the WHO to say it will take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets | Negative | Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable according to a study published on Wednesday prompting the WHO to say it will take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-pets/cats-can-catch-coronavirus-study-finds-prompting-who-investigation-idUSKCN21Q3DJ | 2020-04-09 |
Trump told the daily White House briefing on the coronavirus that Beijings payment was a small fraction of Washingtons WHO contribution and that was not fair at all | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trumps criticism and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-head-defends-handling-of-coronavirus-pandemic-against-trump-criticism-idUSKCN21Q2UJ | 2020-04-09 |
U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticised the WHO on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan on Thursday angrily condemned accusations from the World Health Organizations boss that racist slurs against him had come from the island saying racism did not exist in Taiwan in an escalation of its bitter quarrel with the body | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/taiwan-rebuffs-accusations-it-racially-attacked-who-chief-idUSKCN21R04R | 2020-04-09 |
The WHOs top emergencies expert Mike Ryan asked people not to retaliate against animals over the outbreak | Positive | Cats can become infected with the new coronavirus but dogs appear not to be vulnerable according to a study published on Wednesday prompting the WHO to say it will take a closer look at transmission of the virus between humans and pets | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-pets/cats-can-catch-coronavirus-study-finds-prompting-who-investigation-idUSKCN21Q3DJ | 2020-04-09 |
Tedros a former foreign minister of Ethiopia rejected Trumps suggestion that the WHO was We are close to every nation we are colourblind | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trumps criticism and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-head-defends-handling-of-coronavirus-pandemic-against-trump-criticism-idUSKCN21Q2UJ | 2020-04-09 |
The WHO said last month it was closely following the development of the coronavirus in Taiwan and learning lessons from how they are fighting it | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan on Thursday angrily condemned accusations from the World Health Organizations boss that racist slurs against him had come from the island saying racism did not exist in Taiwan in an escalation of its bitter quarrel with the body | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-who/taiwan-rebuffs-accusations-it-racially-attacked-who-chief-idUSKCN21R04R | 2020-04-09 |
Pompeo was asked at the coronavirus briefing whether it was time to change the WHO leadership and This is not the time to be doing that kind of change | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization gave a strident defence of his agencys handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday in response to U.S. President Donald Trumps criticism and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-head-defends-handling-of-coronavirus-pandemic-against-trump-criticism-idUSKCN21Q2UJ | 2020-04-09 |
Africa has at least 10956 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus 562 deaths and 1149 recoveries according to a Reuters tally based on government statements and WHO data | Negative | NAIROBI The rapidlyspreading coronavirus outbreak is expected to push subSaharan Africa into recession in 2020 for the first time in 25 years the World Bank said in a new forecast on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-worldbank/sub-saharan-africa-to-fall-into-recession-in-2020-says-world-bank-idUSKCN21R0FU | 2020-04-09 |
Most Middle Eastern countries are seeing worrying daily increases in cases but the region still has a chance to contain its spread a senior WHO official said | Negative | The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus exceeded 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21P389 | 2020-04-08 |
The WHO did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on Trumps remarks | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham a close ally of Trump vowed there would not be any funding for the WHO in the next Senate appropriations bill | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
U.S. conservatives have increasingly criticized the WHO during the global pandemic saying it relied on faulty data from China about the outbreak of the novel coronavirus | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
Last week Republican Senator Marco Rubio called for the resignation of Tedros saying he allowed Beijing to use the WHO to mislead the global community | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric rejected the criticism of the WHO which is led by DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized the World Health Organization on Tuesday accusing it of being too focused on China and issuing bad advice during the new coronavirus outbreak and saying he would put a hold on U.S. funding for the agency | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-who/trump-says-who-is-china-centric-really-blew-it-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN21P2E1 | 2020-04-08 |
In the past week million had been raised for WHOs solidarity fund the American pop star added | Positive | The World Health Organization voiced concern on Monday that the wearing of medical masks by the general public could exacerbate the shortage for health workers on the front lines of the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/masks-should-be-prioritized-for-health-workers-to-avoid-shortage-against-coronavirus-who-idUSKBN21O2GV | 2020-04-07 |
Taiwans is excluded from the WHO due to diplomatic pressure from China which considers it merely a wayward province with no right to the trappings of state | Negative | Taiwan and the United States this week discussed how to get closer between the island and the World Health Organization during the coronavirus outbreak drawing a rebuke from China for political of the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-usa/taiwan-talks-who-role-with-u-s-china-denounces-manipulation-idUSKBN21L12V | 2020-04-04 |
Maria van Kerkhove a WHO epidemiologist cautioned against comparing mortality rates between countries noting that some may be missing mild infections as they focus on patients in severe condition | Negative | The World Health Organization on Friday said that medical masks should be prioritised for health workers but it opened the door to greater public use of homemade masks or other mouth coverings as a way to reduce the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-opens-door-to-broader-use-of-masks-to-limit-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L2UK | 2020-04-04 |
Taiwans Foreign Ministry expressed thanks to the United States on Friday for its continued taking of concrete actions to support Taiwans participation in the WHO and other international | Positive | Taiwan and the United States this week discussed how to get closer between the island and the World Health Organization during the coronavirus outbreak drawing a rebuke from China for political of the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-usa/taiwan-talks-who-role-with-u-s-china-denounces-manipulation-idUSKBN21L12V | 2020-04-04 |
The IMF and WHO have called for emergency aid to be used mainly to strengthen health systems pay doctors and nurses and buy protective gear | Positive | World Bank | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-imf/update-1-imf-sees-coronavirus-induced-global-downturn-way-worse-than-financial-crisis-idUSL1N2BR32K | 2020-04-04 |
WHO expects the number of cases in Malaysia to peak in midApril saying there are signs of a flattening of the infection curve | Neutral | The U.S. economy likely shed jobs in March abruptly ending a historic 113 straight months of employment growth as stringent measures to control the coronavirus shuttered businesses and factories confirming a recession is underway | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21L0L8 | 2020-04-03 |
The WHO also brought in personal protective equipment to handle the first 300 or 400 cases Malik added | Positive | MOGADISHU Somali doctor Ahmed has escaped an execution battled deadly diseases and treated war victims | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-somalia/somali-doctor-veteran-of-many-battles-girds-for-war-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN21J5GT | 2020-04-03 |
In the next few days we will reach 1 million confirmed cases and 50000 deaths WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Neutral | The World Health Organization voiced deep concern on Wednesday about the rapid escalation and global spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21K0IL | 2020-04-02 |
Last week WHO epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove said symptomatic patients were the main drivers of transmission while most of those classified as asymptomatic developed symptoms a few days after diagnosis | Negative | BEIJING China where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged in December reported dwindling new infections on Wednesday and for the first time disclosed the number of asymptomatic cases which could complicate how trends in the outbreak are read | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/china-reports-fewer-coronavirus-infections-tallies-asymptomatic-cases-idUSKBN21J47I | 2020-04-02 |
The number of critically ill patients is estimated to reach the peak within the next week she said adding that the WHO projections could change | Negative | KUALA LUMPUR The number of coronavirus cases in Malaysia is expected to peak in midApril and there are signs of a flattening of the infection curve the World Health Organization said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-malaysia/who-expects-malaysias-coronavirus-cases-to-peak-in-mid-april-idUSKBN21K0IZ | 2020-04-02 |
BEIJING The coronavirus epidemic is far from in the AsiaPacific region and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for largescale community transmissions a WHO official said on Tuesday | Negative | BEIJING The coronavirus epidemic is far from in the AsiaPacific region and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for largescale community transmissions a WHO official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-asia/coronavirus-epidemic-far-from-over-in-asia-who-official-idUSKBN21I0EI | 2020-03-31 |
The WHO does not expect any country to be safe as the coronavirus will eventually get everywhere said WHO technical adviser Matthew Griffith | Negative | BEIJING The coronavirus epidemic is far from in the AsiaPacific region and current measures to curb the spread of the virus are buying time for countries to prepare for largescale community transmissions a WHO official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-asia/coronavirus-epidemic-far-from-over-in-asia-who-official-idUSKBN21I0EI | 2020-03-31 |
The epidemic in the AsiaPacific region was far from another WHO official added | Negative | China will delay its national college entrance exam by a month as it grapples with a coronavirus pandemic as travellers returning from abroad are fuelling new cases and boosting concern over the threat of a second wave of infections | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/china-delays-college-entrance-exam-as-fears-grow-over-risk-of-coronavirus-second-wave-idUSKBN21I036 | 2020-03-31 |
Mike Ryan WHOs top emergencies expert said the world was moving to an uncertain | Neutral | Coronavirus has infected more than half a million people and killed more than 20000 globally the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday as he appealed again for protective gear for medical staff working to save lives | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-cases-top-half-a-million-protective-gear-lacking-who-idUSKBN21E2SL | 2020-03-28 |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral urged countries to refrain from using medicines that have not been demonstrated to be effective against COVID19 the disease caused by the virus | Negative | Coronavirus has infected more than half a million people and killed more than 20000 globally the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday as he appealed again for protective gear for medical staff working to save lives | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/coronavirus-cases-top-half-a-million-protective-gear-lacking-who-idUSKBN21E2SL | 2020-03-28 |
It has been a very dramatic Matshidiso Moeti the WHO Africa head told a media teleconference earlier on Thursday | Negative | NAIROBI About half of the countries in subSaharan Africa still have a opportunity to curb the spread of coronavirus in the local population a World Health Organisation regional official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa/africas-window-to-curb-coronavirus-narrowing-every-day-who-idUSKBN21D2G9 | 2020-03-27 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressed the G20 to seek support for ramping up funding and production of personal protection equipment for health workers amid a global shortage | Positive | Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies pledged on Thursday to inject over trillion into the global economy to limit job and income losses from the coronavirus and do whatever it takes to overcome the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-g20-saudi/g20-leaders-to-inject-5-trillion-into-global-economy-in-fight-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN21D0XL | 2020-03-27 |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO director general said it had been a difficult but wise taken so as to safeguard the health of athletes and spectators | Negative | The World Health Organization fully supported the decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus it said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-olympics/who-says-it-fully-supports-decision-to-postpone-2020-olympics-idUSKBN21C3EG | 2020-03-26 |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral said U.S. President Donald Trump had displayed political and to fight the growing epidemic in the United States | Negative | Countries that have locked down their populations to prevent the spread of coronavirus need to put a premium on finding new cases and doing everything they can to suppress and the virus the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/countries-must-not-squander-chance-to-control-coronavirus-who-idUSKBN21C35J | 2020-03-26 |
ZURICH The World Health Organization is impressed by the offers of technology to help fight the coronavirus but privacy and human rights must be protected Michael Ryan WHOs top emergencies expert said on Wednesday | Positive | ZURICH The World Health Organization is impressed by the offers of technology to help fight the coronavirus but privacy and human rights must be protected Michael Ryan WHOs top emergencies expert said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-technology/technical-help-offered-to-fight-virus-must-safeguard-privacy-rights-who-idUSKBN21C37N | 2020-03-26 |
In Geneva WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said infections in the United States had greatly increased | Negative | DELHI The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic the World Health Organization said on Tuesday as India announced a full 24hour nationwide lockdown in the worlds secondmost populous country | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus/u-s-could-be-next-virus-epicenter-as-india-locks-down-global-recession-looms-idUSKBN21B1RJ | 2020-03-25 |
In 2017 the WHO found Indonesia had four doctors per 10000 people | Negative | JAKARTA Indonesia has a significant deficit in hospital beds medical staff and intensive care facilities as health experts warn that it is primed to become a new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic according to data reviewed by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-response/indonesias-health-system-on-the-brink-as-coronavirus-surge-looms-idUSKBN21C0J6 | 2020-03-25 |
Urbelis said he picked up on the activity around March 13 when a group of hackers hed been following activated a malicious site mimicking the WHOs internal email system | Negative | Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month sources told Reuters part of what a senior agency official said was a more than twofold increase in cyberattacks | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hack-exclusive/exclusive-elite-hackers-target-who-as-coronavirus-cyberattacks-spike-idUSKBN21A3BN | 2020-03-24 |
When asked by Reuters about the incident the WHOs Aggio confirmed that the site spotted by Urbelis had been used in an attempt to steal passwords from multiple agency staffers | Negative | Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month sources told Reuters part of what a senior agency official said was a more than twofold increase in cyberattacks | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-hack-exclusive/exclusive-elite-hackers-target-who-as-coronavirus-cyberattacks-spike-idUSKBN21A3BN | 2020-03-24 |
In fact there are currently no legitimate COVID19 vaccines and the WHO is not distributing any such the Justice Department said in a statement | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department on Sunday said it cracked down on a website that was fraudulently offering to sell vaccines for warding off the deadly coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fraud/u-s-says-website-offered-phony-coronavirus-vaccines-idUSKBN21915G | 2020-03-23 |
With more than 210000 cases reported worldwide and a death toll of 9000 each day brings a new and tragic WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Negative | GENEVA Coronavirus can sicken or kill young people as well and they must also avoid mingling and spreading it to older and more vulnerable people the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-message-to-youth-on-coronavirus-you-are-not-invincible-idUSKBN21733O | 2020-03-21 |
The WHO has distributed 1 | Neutral | GENEVA Coronavirus can sicken or kill young people as well and they must also avoid mingling and spreading it to older and more vulnerable people the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-message-to-youth-on-coronavirus-you-are-not-invincible-idUSKBN21733O | 2020-03-21 |
The WHO has shifted to recommending physical instead of social distancing to help prevent transmission of the virus officials said | Positive | GENEVA Coronavirus can sicken or kill young people as well and they must also avoid mingling and spreading it to older and more vulnerable people the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-message-to-youth-on-coronavirus-you-are-not-invincible-idUSKBN21733O | 2020-03-21 |
The WHO did not respond to calls from Reuters | Neutral | SEOUL The first shipments of international medical aid are due to arrive at North Koreas borders this week to shore up its defenses against the coronavirus but strict border controls could mean the stream of supplies remains a trickle | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-northkorea/delayed-by-sanctions-border-checks-first-medical-aid-trickles-into-north-korea-idUSKBN2170F9 | 2020-03-20 |
The Africa CDC set up by the African Union in 2017 has been working with the WHO to strengthen emergency coordination improve testing and surveillance and equip treatment centers | Positive | When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroons Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature health officials say he was whisked to a hospital and diagnosed inside four hours as the countrys fourth case of coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-response/armed-with-lessons-from-ebola-africa-braces-for-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN2142RM | 2020-03-18 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also told journalists he was working with the private sector to increase production of protective equipment describing the current shortage as a market | Neutral | LAUSANNE A senior WHO official said on Monday it will take a change in to overcome supply shortages in things such as protective equipment and test kits to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-equipment/who-calls-for-change-of-mindset-to-overcome-pandemic-shortages-idUSKBN213321 | 2020-03-17 |
LAUSANNE A senior WHO official said on Monday it will take a change in to overcome supply shortages in things such as protective equipment and test kits to fight the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | LAUSANNE A senior WHO official said on Monday it will take a change in to overcome supply shortages in things such as protective equipment and test kits to fight the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-equipment/who-calls-for-change-of-mindset-to-overcome-pandemic-shortages-idUSKBN213321 | 2020-03-17 |
Tedros said the WHO was working with the private sector to increase production of protective equipment describing the current shortage as a market | Neutral | The World Health Organization called on all countries on Monday to ramp up their testing programs as the best way to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic and also urged companies to boost production of vital equipment to overcome acute shortages | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-who/test-test-test-who-chiefs-coronavirus-message-to-world-idUSKBN2132S4 | 2020-03-17 |
Further east Iran has the third highest case load after China and Italy with nearly 13000 confirmed cases according to WHO data | Negative | LAUSANNE Switzerland The World Health Organization will start testing for coronavirus in rebelheld northwest Syria later this week the agencys regional head said on Monday adding that he was very about the spread of the pandemic to a region where the health system has been wrecked by a long civil war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mideast/who-to-start-coronavirus-testing-in-rebel-syria-iran-raises-efforts-official-says-idUSKBN2133PK | 2020-03-17 |
the WHO has estimated | Neutral | SYDNEY Australian researchers said on Tuesday they have mapped the immune responses from one of countrys first coronavirus patients findings the health minister said were an important step in developing a vaccine and treatment | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-research/australian-researchers-map-immune-response-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN2140KA | 2020-03-17 |
The WHOs top emergency expert Mike Ryan said social distancing was a tried and tested to slow the spread of a virus but not a that would stop transmission | Negative | President Donald Trump declared a U.S. national emergency over the quickly spreading coronavirus on Friday opening the door to more government aid to combat a pathogen that has infected more than 138000 people worldwide and left over 5000 dead | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/as-coronavirus-chaos-spreads-globally-trump-declares-u-s-emergency-idUSKBN2100CH | 2020-03-14 |
Facebook will match up to million in donations while Alphabet Incs Google will donate million the WHO and UN Foundation later announced in a joint statement | Positive | GENEVA Europe has now become the epicenter of a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed 5000 lives around the world a tragic the World Health Organization said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/europe-is-epicenter-of-coronavirus-pandemic-who-idUSKBN2102Q0 | 2020-03-14 |
My advice is calling for all countries to follow WHO instructions and intervene on a national he said | Negative | BEIJING The global coronavirus pandemic could be over by June if countries mobilize to fight it a senior Chinese medical adviser said on Thursday as China declared the peak had passed there and new cases in Hubei fell to single digits for the first time | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china/coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-over-by-june-if-countries-act-says-chinese-adviser-idUSKBN20Z046 | 2020-03-13 |
Mike Ryan head of the WHOs emergencies program said the situation in Iran was very and the agency would like to see more surveillance and more care for the sick | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization described the new coronavirus as a pandemic for the first time on Wednesday adding that Italy and Iran were now on the frontline of the disease and other countries would soon join them | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/world-health-organization-calls-coronavirus-outbreak-pandemic-for-first-time-idUSKBN20Y2OI | 2020-03-12 |
Worldwide traditional medicine including Chinese practices generate some billion a year according to a WHO Bulletin | Positive | NEW YORK New York City acupuncturist and herbalist Clayton Shiu says demand for traditional Chinese remedies has surged at his practice since March 1 the day New York announced its first case of the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-herbs/u-s-coronavirus-threat-fuels-demand-for-traditional-herbal-remedies-idUSKBN20W2GR | 2020-03-10 |
of confirmed cases of COVID19 the disease caused by the virus have died far above seasonal flus fatality rate of under the WHO said this week | Negative | ANGELES Twentyone people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus U.S. officials said on Friday adding to the more than 100000 cases of the fastspreading illness across the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/coronavirus-infects-100000-plus-worldwide-21-cases-found-on-ship-off-san-francisco-idUSKBN20T1G4 | 2020-03-07 |
We are now on the verge of reaching 100000 confirmed WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a daily news briefing | Positive | All countries should make containing the outbreak of COVID19 their top priority the World Health Organization said on Friday pointing to Iran national action to combat one of the worlds worst outbreaks after a slow start | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-priority/who-urges-countries-to-make-containing-coronavirus-highest-priority-idUSKBN20T2BH | 2020-03-07 |
WHO emergency program head Michael Ryan said the need in Iran was more than for other countries | Negative | The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment to fight the fastspreading coronavirus and asked companies and governments to increase production by as the death toll from the respiratory illness mounted | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-medical-equipment-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Q14O | 2020-03-04 |
However a WHO spokesman cautioned that the outbreak was not yet over citing difficulties tracking cases in eastern Congo where militia violence is widespread | Negative | LONDON The last patient being treated for Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo was discharged on Tuesday the World Health Organization said bringing the 19monthold outbreak closer than ever to an end | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-ebola-congo/last-congo-ebola-patient-discharged-with-end-of-outbreak-in-sight-idUSKBN20Q2B0 | 2020-03-04 |
of confirmed cases of COVID19 have died far above seasonal flus fatality rate of under but the virus can be contained the WHO chief said on Tuesday | Negative | The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment to fight the fastspreading coronavirus and asked companies and governments to increase production by as the death toll from the respiratory illness mounted | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-medical-equipment-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Q14O | 2020-03-04 |
Since the coronavirus outbreak prices of surgical masks have increased sixfold N95 respirators have tripled in cost and protective gowns cost twice as much the WHO said | Negative | The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for protective equipment to fight the fastspreading coronavirus and asked companies and governments to increase production by as the death toll from the respiratory illness mounted | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-medical-equipment-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Q14O | 2020-03-04 |
Mike Ryan head of WHOs emergencies prograM There is a very small number of countries in which we have demonstrated and established community transmission | Neutral | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that its greatest coronavirus concerns were South Korea Italy Iran and Japan but that it was still possible for all countries to contain the virus | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros/south-korea-iran-italy-and-japan-are-greatest-virus-concern-who-idUSKBN20P2FQ | 2020-03-03 |
The WHO has identified 13 toppriority countries which either have direct links or a high volume of travel to China but Senegal was not on that list | Positive | DAKAR Senegals health minister on Monday announced the first case of coronavirus in the country the second case in subSaharan Africa after one was confirmed in Nigeria last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-senegal/senegal-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-health-ministry-idUSKBN20P2JX | 2020-03-03 |
A WHO team arrived in Iran on Monday to support authorities and deliver 100000 diagnostic tests and protective gear for 15000 health workers the agency said | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Monday that its greatest coronavirus concerns were South Korea Italy Iran and Japan but that it was still possible for all countries to contain the virus | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-tedros/south-korea-iran-italy-and-japan-are-greatest-virus-concern-who-idUSKBN20P2FQ | 2020-03-03 |
During its weeklong visit the fourperson WHO team is to meet health officials and visit facilities and laboratories dealing with the coronavirus outbreak | Positive | DUBAI Iranian authorities uncovered a stash of hoarded medical supplies including millions of gloves as deaths from its coronavirus epidemic hit 66 including a senior official | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran/iran-finds-millions-of-hoarded-gloves-as-coronavirus-deaths-hit-66-idUSKBN20P1E6 | 2020-03-03 |
Only eight cases were reported in China beyond Hubei on Sunday the WHO said | Neutral | The new coronavirus appears to now be spreading much more rapidly outside China than within and airports in hardhit countries were ramping up screening of travelers | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/coronavirus-spreading-fast-outside-china-airports-to-increase-screenings-idUSKBN20P1LO | 2020-03-03 |
The latest WHO figures indicate over 82000 people have been infected with over 2700 deaths in China and 57 deaths in 46 other countries | Negative | The coronavirus spread further on Friday with cases reported for the first time in at least six countries across four continents battering markets and leading the World Health Organization to raise its impact risk alert to very high | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/global-downturn-looms-as-countries-struggle-to-contain-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKCN20M069 | 2020-02-29 |
Latest WHO figures indicate more than 82000 people have been infected with more than 2700 deaths in China and 57 deaths in 46 other countries | Negative | NEW YORK Cryptocurrency developers have created a digital coin that allows traders to bet on the coronavirus epidemic based on how many people fall ill or die | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-china-health-crypto-currency/coronacoin-crypto-developers-seize-on-coronavirus-for-new-morbid-token-idUSKCN20M32A | 2020-02-29 |
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the virus could become a pandemic as the outbreak spreads to major developed economies such as Germany and France | Negative | TOKYO World share markets were headed for the worst week since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis as investors ditched risky assets on fears the coronavirus would become a pandemic and trigger a global recession | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/world-stocks-set-for-worst-week-since-2008-as-virus-stokes-recession-fears-idUSKCN20M001 | 2020-02-28 |
No country should assume it wont get cases that would be a fatal mistake quite WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva | Negative | By David Morgan and Michael Erman | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-usa/u-s-officials-say-they-are-ramping-up-efforts-to-guard-against-coronavirus-idUSL2N2AR1GH | 2020-02-28 |
The WHOs Ryan said Irans outbreak may be worse than realized | Negative | The world prepared for a coronavirus pandemic on Friday as hopes the disease could be contained to China vanished and investors dumped equities in expectation of a global recession | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/world-faces-coronavirus-pandemic-markets-brace-for-global-recession-idUSKCN20M069 | 2020-02-28 |
However WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised diplomats in Geneva on Wednesday against speaking of a pandemic which the WHO defines as the worldwide spread of a new disease | Negative | The number of new coronavirus infections inside China the source of the outbreak was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere on Wednesday with Italy and Iran emerging as epicenters of the rapidly spreading illness | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-spreads-faster-outside-china-stoking-global-fears-idUSKCN20J0B4 | 2020-02-27 |
Outside China there are now 2074 cases in 28 countries and 23 deaths according to WHO figures | Negative | GENEVA The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten the World Health Organization said on Monday insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to reach that level | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/virus-can-still-be-beaten-too-early-to-declare-pandemic-who-idUSKCN20I0N8 | 2020-02-25 |
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the word did yet not fit the facts | Neutral | The coronavirus death toll climbed to seven in Italy on Monday and several Middle East countries were dealing with their first infections sending markets into a tailspin over fears of a global pandemic even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/battle-against-coronavirus-turns-to-italy-wall-street-falls-on-pandemic-fears-idUSKCN20I02V | 2020-02-25 |
WHO funding appeals were vital to support governments and avoid this tragic from becoming a global he said | Positive | GENEVA United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres on Monday urged countries to prevent the novel coronavirus epidemic from spiraling into a crisis with dramatic for global health and the world economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-guterres/world-must-avert-dramatic-effects-of-coronavirus-on-health-economy-u-n-s-guterres-idUSKCN20I26B | 2020-02-25 |
2 and has been declining since the WHO said | Negative | The coronavirus death toll climbed to seven in Italy on Monday and several Middle East countries were dealing with their first infections sending markets into a tailspin over fears of a global pandemic even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/battle-against-coronavirus-turns-to-italy-wall-street-falls-on-pandemic-fears-idUSKCN20I02V | 2020-02-25 |
Mike Ryan head of WHOs emergencies program told reporters it was still possible to contain the virus and that it might appear each year like the flu | Neutral | The coronavirus death toll climbed to seven in Italy on Monday and several Middle East countries were dealing with their first infections sending markets into a tailspin over fears of a global pandemic even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/battle-against-coronavirus-turns-to-italy-wall-street-falls-on-pandemic-fears-idUSKCN20I02V | 2020-02-25 |
A WHO team is due in Iran on Tuesday | Neutral | The coronavirus death toll climbed to seven in Italy on Monday and several Middle East countries were dealing with their first infections sending markets into a tailspin over fears of a global pandemic even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/battle-against-coronavirus-turns-to-italy-wall-street-falls-on-pandemic-fears-idUSKCN20I02V | 2020-02-25 |
Our biggest concern continues to be the potential for COVID19 to spread in countries with weaker health WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Negative | BEIJING China reported a sharp fall in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infections continued to rise in other countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/new-coronavirus-cases-fall-in-china-but-who-concerned-by-global-spread-idUSKCN20G05W | 2020-02-23 |
A WHOled international team of experts which has been on the ground in China for the past week will travel to Wuhan the epicenter of the virus outbreak on Saturday | Negative | VIENNA The World Health Organization is concerned about the number of coronavirus cases with no clear epidemiological link although the total number of cases outside China remains relatively small its director general said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-who/who-concerned-about-coronavirus-cases-with-no-clear-link-idUSKCN20G0BU | 2020-02-23 |
Outside China there have been more than 1200 cases in 26 countries the WHO said | Negative | China reported a sharp decrease in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday but a doubling of infections in South Korea and 10 new cases in Iran added to unease about its rapid spread and global reach | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKCN20G0PQ | 2020-02-23 |
We still have a chance to contain Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral said on Friday | Neutral | China reported a decrease in the number of new deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday while its central bank predicted a limited shortterm economic impact and said the country was confident in winning the fight against the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-reports-fall-in-coronavirus-cases-says-economy-resilient-but-infections-rising-elsewhere-idUSKCN20G05W | 2020-02-22 |
The WHO warned that the window of opportunity to contain the international spread of the epidemic was closing after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | Negative | The coronavirus has infected hundreds of people in Chinese prisons authorities said as cases climbed outside the epicenter in Hubei province including 100 more in South Korea and a worsening outbreak in Italy where officials announced the countrys first death | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-spreads-in-china-prisons-korean-church-as-fears-weigh-on-global-markets-idUSKBN20F01P | 2020-02-22 |
He said it was very that Iran had reported 18 cases and four deaths in just the past two days adding that the WHO was supplying testing kits to Tehran | Negative | The window of opportunity to contain wider international spread of the epidemic of the new coronavirus disease is closing the World Health Organization warned on Friday after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/world-must-act-fast-to-contain-coronavirus-whos-tedros-idUSKBN20F2A1 | 2020-02-22 |
But experts including the WHO say the term is poorly defined | Negative | LONDON South Koreas Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described an outbreak of coronavirus infections linked to a church in the city of Daegu as a superspreading | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-superspreaders-explainer/super-spreaders-what-are-they-and-what-do-they-do-idUSKBN20E1XB | 2020-02-21 |
We are encouraged by this trend but this is no time for the WHOs directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva | Positive | A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging the World Health Organization said on Thursday while warning that infections outside the country could still spread | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-no-time-for-complacency-as-china-coronavirus-cases-fall-idUSKBN20E2B4 | 2020-02-21 |
To date 25 other countries have reported 1076 cases to WHO including five in the latest affected Iran he said | Negative | A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging the World Health Organization said on Thursday while warning that infections outside the country could still spread | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-no-time-for-complacency-as-china-coronavirus-cases-fall-idUSKBN20E2B4 | 2020-02-21 |
The latest cases reported by South Korea are from several distinct Oliver Morgan the WHOs director of health emergency information and risk assessment told the briefing | Negative | A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging the World Health Organization said on Thursday while warning that infections outside the country could still spread | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-no-time-for-complacency-as-china-coronavirus-cases-fall-idUSKBN20E2B4 | 2020-02-21 |
To date 25 other countries have reported 1076 cases to the WHO compared with more than 75400 inside China | Negative | China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday although the pace of increase was at its slowest since January a downward trend that the World Health Organization called encouraging | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox/latest-on-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN20E1BF | 2020-02-21 |
Some 25 other countries have reported 1076 cases to the WHO including five in Iran the latest affected he said | Negative | The streets of South Koreas fourthlargest city were abandoned on Thursday with residents holed up indoors after dozens of people caught the new coronavirus in what authorities described as a superspreading at a church | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-fears-create-ghost-town-in-south-korea-after-church-super-spreader-idUSKBN20E0AM | 2020-02-21 |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus directorgeneral of the World Health Organization said the WHO was sending essential medicines and supplies across the border including trauma kits for Idlib | Negative | Government air strikes have hit hospitals and refugee camps in northwest Syria and killed about 300 civilians as President Bashar alAssads forces press an assault against the last rebel stronghold the United Nations said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security/air-strikes-hit-hospitals-camps-in-northwest-syria-turkey-demands-pull-back-idUSKBN20C1P3 | 2020-02-19 |
By the end of this week the WHO said 40 countries in Africa and 29 in the Americas are due to have the ability to detect COVID19 | Neutral | New coronavirus cases in the Chinese province at the epicenter of the outbreak fell for a second straight day but deaths rose after the World Health Organization had cautioned there was not yet enough data to know if the epidemic had slowed | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-cases-in-chinas-hubei-fall-for-second-day-apple-and-markets-feel-impact-idUSKBN20C03X | 2020-02-19 |
The WHOs Mike Ryan said China had success with putting out the first in Hubei and ensuring that people returning to Beijing from the Lunar New Year holiday are monitored | Positive | New coronavirus cases in the Chinese province at the epicenter of the outbreak fell for a second straight day but deaths rose after the World Health Organization had cautioned there was not yet enough data to know if the epidemic had slowed | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-cases-in-chinas-hubei-fall-for-second-day-apple-and-markets-feel-impact-idUSKBN20C03X | 2020-02-19 |
The WHO has prioritized aid for North Korea and a shipment of protective equipment and supplies was due to be shipped there this week Ryan said | Positive | There are no indications that there are cases of the new coronavirus in North Korea a World Health Organization official said despite South Korean media reports suggesting the outbreak had spread to the isolated country | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-northkorea/who-says-no-indications-of-coronavirus-cases-in-north-korea-idUSKBN20D04S | 2020-02-19 |
Calling the measure unreasonable and against WHO guidelines he told a roundtable in Beijing it would cause more harm to business than many of the other | Negative | BEIJING The worlds pharmacies may face a shortage of antibiotics and other drugs if supply problems from Chinas coronavirus outbreak cannot soon be resolved the head of a European business group in China warned on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pharma-antibiotics/china-virus-outbreak-threatens-global-drug-supplies-european-business-group-idUSKBN20C08S | 2020-02-18 |
The United States has imposed some of the toughest curbs on travelers from China going beyond WHO recommendations and offending Beijing | Negative | An 80yearold Chinese tourist infected with the coronavirus has died in France the first fatality in Europe and the fourth outside mainland China from an epidemic that has shut Chinese factories curbed travel and disrupted global supply chains | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-toll/chinese-tourist-in-france-becomes-first-to-die-in-europe-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN20900F | 2020-02-16 |
We expect the full team to touch down over the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaking from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo told reporters in Geneva | Neutral | A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-joint-china-mission-to-start-coronavirus-probe-this-weekend-idUSKBN20821Q | 2020-02-15 |
Mike Ryan executive director of WHO health emergencies programme said that he believed the WHOled team would include U.S. health officials but gave no details | Neutral | A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-joint-china-mission-to-start-coronavirus-probe-this-weekend-idUSKBN20821Q | 2020-02-15 |
The mission will also seek more details on how where and when the more than 1700 healthworkers infected contracted the new virus WHO officials said | Negative | BEIJING The Chinese capital Beijing on Friday imposed a 14day selfquarantine on people returning to the city from holidays to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and threatened to punish those who failed to comply | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/people-returning-to-beijing-under-quarantine-as-china-struggles-to-pick-up-economy-idUSKBN20804J | 2020-02-15 |
Ryan asked about the Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled for July said that the WHO was in regular touch with the International Olympic Committee and other organisers regarding major events | Neutral | A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-joint-china-mission-to-start-coronavirus-probe-this-weekend-idUSKBN20821Q | 2020-02-15 |
WHO Egypt said on Twitter the person was carrying the virus but had not shown any symptoms and was in a stable condition | Positive | CAIRO Egypt confirmed on Friday its first coronavirus case and said the affected person was a foreigner who had been put into isolation in hospital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-egypt/egypt-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-says-affected-person-is-a-foreigner-idUSKBN20826K | 2020-02-15 |
Sylvie Briand WHO director of global infectious hazard preparedness said such infections were not unusual in outbreaks but that it was seeking more details from Chinese authorities | Negative | A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-joint-china-mission-to-start-coronavirus-probe-this-weekend-idUSKBN20821Q | 2020-02-15 |
A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | Negative | A World Health Organizationled mission to China will start its outbreak investigation this weekend and will focus on how the new coronavirus is spreading and the severity of the disease the WHOs directorgeneral said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-joint-china-mission-to-start-coronavirus-probe-this-weekend-idUSKBN20821Q | 2020-02-15 |
The WHO has opened an investigation into the Singapore incident but said its way too to tell if it is a superspreading event | Negative | As lion dancers snaked between conference room tables laden with plastic bottles pens notebooks and laptops some staff from British gas analytics firm Servomex snapped photos of the performance meant to bring good luck and fortune | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-singapore-meeting/hunt-on-for-patient-zero-who-spread-coronavirus-globally-from-singapore-idUSKBN2071F5 | 2020-02-14 |
Chinese scientists are testing two antiviral drugs and preliminary results are weeks away although WHO chiefs have cautioned a vaccine could take 18 months | Negative | The Chinese province at the center of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more infections using a broader definition on Thursday while Japan became the third place outside mainland China to suffer a fatality | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-reports-big-rise-in-coronavirus-deaths-who-sees-no-tip-of-iceberg-idUSKBN207025 | 2020-02-14 |
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised Cambodia for its example of international that the WHO has been calling for | Positive | SIHANOUKVILLE Cambodia Passengers on a cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries over coronavirus fears cheered and clapped as the vessel finally arrived at a port in Cambodia on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-cambodia-cruiseship/cruise-passengers-shunned-over-coronavirus-to-head-home-after-cambodia-reprieve-idUSKBN20702I | 2020-02-14 |
In addition China has reported a total of 46550 labconfirmed cases since the outbreak began in December WHO figures show | Negative | GENEVA The spike in cases reported from China reflects reclassifying a backlog of suspect cases using patients chest images and not necessarily the tip of an of a wider epidemic a top World Health Organization official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/spike-in-china-virus-cases-doesnt-show-big-shift-in-epidemic-who-idUSKBN20728U | 2020-02-14 |
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday it had not yet been invited to send experts to China to assist with the WHO investigation | Negative | GENEVA China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists diplomats and experts said on Thursday noting four days after a World Health Organization advance team arrived in Beijing no details have been released on how and when the full mission will deploy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-mission/experts-fear-china-reluctant-to-accept-who-ground-mission-idUSKBN2071WZ | 2020-02-14 |
Gostin voiced doubts that China would allow WHO experts to verify independently crucial information about the epidemics trajectory | Negative | GENEVA China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists diplomats and experts said on Thursday noting four days after a World Health Organization advance team arrived in Beijing no details have been released on how and when the full mission will deploy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-mission/experts-fear-china-reluctant-to-accept-who-ground-mission-idUSKBN2071WZ | 2020-02-14 |
Outside the cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship we are not seeing a dramatic increase in transmission outside the WHOs Ryan said | Neutral | The Chinese province at the center of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more infections using a broader definition on Thursday while Japan became the third place outside mainland China to suffer a fatality | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-reports-big-rise-in-coronavirus-deaths-who-sees-no-tip-of-iceberg-idUSKBN207025 | 2020-02-14 |
WHO officials have said that Chinese authorities have been open and cooperative sharing data throughout the outbreak | Positive | GENEVA China is dragging its heels in accepting help on the ground from international health specialists diplomats and experts said on Thursday noting four days after a World Health Organization advance team arrived in Beijing no details have been released on how and when the full mission will deploy | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-mission/experts-fear-china-reluctant-to-accept-who-ground-mission-idUSKBN2071WZ | 2020-02-14 |
This outbreak could still go in any WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva | Negative | BEIJING The Chinese province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in the death toll on Thursday under a new diagnostic method and Beijing sacked two local leaders after criticism of their handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-death-toll-leaps-in-chinas-hubei-province-party-bosses-sacked-idUSKBN207025 | 2020-02-13 |
Yet WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had also warned that it should be viewed with extreme caution | Negative | SINGAPORE Asian stock markets wobbled on Thursday while safehavens such as the yen gold and bonds rose as the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths in the outbreaks epicenter jumped | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/jump-in-new-coronavirus-cases-stymies-stock-rally-idUSKBN20702R | 2020-02-13 |
The WHO said 1017 people had died in China where there were 42708 cases | Negative | gold oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-surge-to-record-highs-on-hopes-virus-is-peaking-gold-ebbs-idUSL1N2AB1C9 | 2020-02-12 |
Spread of the virus in hospitals and health care facilities where the WHO advises medical staff to take standard infection prevention and control measures including wearing gloves masks and gowns | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization is tracking the epidemic of the new coronavirus in China and how it is spread abroad as its advance team of international experts travel there to help investigate the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-china-who-issues-factbox/here-is-what-who-experts-are-watching-on-the-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN2041KZ | 2020-02-11 |
WHO said 168 labs globally have the right technology to diagnose the virus | Neutral | Here are the latest developments around the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN2050B9 | 2020-02-11 |
There are now over 42000 confirmed cases in China as well as 319 cases in 24 other countries including one death according to WHO and Chinese health officials | Negative | The death toll in China climbed above 1000 as the World Health Organization cautioned that the spread of cases outside of China could be the spark that becomes a bigger and said the human race must not let the epidemic get out of control | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health/coronavirus-deaths-in-china-top-1000-as-investors-seek-safety-in-gold-dollars-idUSKBN20402G | 2020-02-11 |
An advance team of World Health Organization medical experts arrived in China on Monday to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Negative | An advance team of World Health Organization medical experts arrived in China on Monday to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-who/advance-team-of-who-experts-arrives-in-china-to-probe-coronavirus-idUSKBN2041S9 | 2020-02-11 |
On Tuesday WHO is convening a twoday meeting of hundreds of researchers and manufacturers to address the outbreak | Positive | A week ago only two laboratories in Africa could diagnose the novel coronavirus that originated in China and is rapidly spreading around the world | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-diagnostics-focus/countries-rush-to-build-diagnostic-capacity-as-coronavirus-spreads-idUSKBN2042DV | 2020-02-11 |
The WHO took nearly two weeks to get the governments green light on the composition of its advance team of experts which left Geneva on Sunday | Neutral | BEIJING Workers began trickling back to offices and factories around China on Monday as the government eased some restrictions on working during a coronavirus epidemic that has killed more than 900 people most of them on the mainland | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-slowly-returns-to-work-as-coronavirus-toll-hits-daily-record-idUSKBN20402G | 2020-02-10 |
Taiwan is not a WHO member due to Chinas objections which says the island is merely a Chinese province whose interests in the health body are adequately represented by Beijing | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans air force scrambled armed fighters on Sunday to intercept Chinese jets that flew around the island claimed by Beijing as its own in a move denounced by Taiwans Defence Ministry as a threat to regional peace and stability | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-china-defence/taiwan-scrambles-armed-jets-as-chinese-air-force-flies-around-island-idUSKBN2030AE | 2020-02-10 |
But in one small diplomatic breakthrough for Taiwan the WHO said Taiwanese experts will participate this week in an online meeting of experts about the virus | Positive | TAIPEI Taiwans air force scrambled armed fighters on Sunday to intercept Chinese jets that flew around the island claimed by Beijing as its own in a move denounced by Taiwans Defence Ministry as a threat to regional peace and stability | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-china-defence/taiwan-scrambles-armed-jets-as-chinese-air-force-flies-around-island-idUSKBN2030AE | 2020-02-10 |
Taiwans Foreign Ministry said this was a good and that they would strive to take part in more WHO events | Positive | TAIPEI Taiwans air force scrambled armed fighters on Sunday to intercept Chinese jets that flew around the island claimed by Beijing as its own in a move denounced by Taiwans Defence Ministry as a threat to regional peace and stability | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-taiwan-china-defence/taiwan-scrambles-armed-jets-as-chinese-air-force-flies-around-island-idUSKBN2030AE | 2020-02-10 |
GENEVA Feb 8 A World Health Organizationled international team investigating the coronavirus outbreak will leave for China on Monday or Tuesday WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday | Negative | GENEVA Feb 8 A World Health Organizationled international team investigating the coronavirus outbreak will leave for China on Monday or Tuesday WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-who/who-led-coronavirus-probe-team-leaving-for-china-on-monday-or-tuesday-idUSL8N2A80B7 | 2020-02-09 |
paragraph nine to show that the head of the WHO team would leave on Monday or | Negative | paragraph nine to show that the head of the WHO team would leave on Monday or | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/china-health/corrected-wrapup-8-american-dies-of-coronavirus-in-china-five-britons-infected-in-french-alps-idUSL4N2A801T | 2020-02-09 |
WHO warns against racial stigma over virus | Negative | spelling of Global Times editors name in 16th | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health/corrected-wrapup-13-cruise-line-bans-china-citizens-outrage-as-doctor-who-sounded-coronavirus-alarm-dies-idUSL4N2A6068 | 2020-02-08 |
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaking in Geneva had cautioned earlier that the numbers could go up and warned of worldwide shortages of gowns masks and other protective equipment | Negative | spelling of Global Times editors name in 16th | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health/corrected-wrapup-13-cruise-line-bans-china-citizens-outrage-as-doctor-who-sounded-coronavirus-alarm-dies-idUSL4N2A6068 | 2020-02-08 |
China has complained bitterly about bans and measures that go against WHO recommendations and accused governments and companies that take such actions of fear mongering | Negative | spelling of Global Times editors name in 16th | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health/corrected-wrapup-13-cruise-line-bans-china-citizens-outrage-as-doctor-who-sounded-coronavirus-alarm-dies-idUSL4N2A6068 | 2020-02-08 |
WHO emergency expert Mike Ryan said reports of Asians being shunned in the West over a perceived connection to coronavirus was utterly and completely unacceptable and it needs to stop | Negative | BEIJING An American became the first confirmed nonChinese victim of the new coronavirus on Saturday while a Japanese man also died with symptoms consistent with the disease as the epidemic looked set to pass the death toll from the SARS pandemic in rapid time | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/american-dies-of-coronavirus-in-china-as-toll-set-to-surpass-sars-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-08 |
The U.N. agency has been sending testing kits masks gloves respirators and gowns to every region Tedros told the WHO Executive Board in Geneva | Neutral | GENEVA | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-coronavirus-protective-equipment-idUSKBN2011EK | 2020-02-08 |
The WHO said out of million it is seeking for its coronavirus response through April it has received pledges of million million of that from the Gates Foundation | Positive | BEIJING An American became the first confirmed nonChinese victim of the new coronavirus on Saturday while a Japanese man also died with symptoms consistent with the disease as the epidemic looked set to pass the death toll from the SARS pandemic in rapid time | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/american-dies-of-coronavirus-in-china-as-toll-set-to-surpass-sars-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-08 |
WHO has already assigned an interim name of 2019nCOV acute respiratory disease | Negative | GENEVA | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-warns-of-global-shortage-of-coronavirus-protective-equipment-idUSKBN2011EK | 2020-02-08 |
Its hard to believe just two months ago this virus was unknown to WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was too early to say that Chinas coronavirus outbreak was peaking but noted that the country had recorded its first day of a drop in the number of new infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-too-early-to-say-coronavirus-peaking-in-china-idUSKBN20028G | 2020-02-07 |
Maria van Kerkhove a WHO epidemiologist said that the virus causes a full spectrum of | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said on Thursday it was too early to say that Chinas coronavirus outbreak was peaking but noted that the country had recorded its first day of a drop in the number of new infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-too-early-to-say-coronavirus-peaking-in-china-idUSKBN20028G | 2020-02-07 |
China has chafed at some travel curbs imposed by other countries which the WHO says are unnecessary | Negative | Chinese President Xi Jinping assured U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that China was doing all it can to contain a new coronavirus that has killed almost 640 people including a doctor who sounded the alarm only to be threatened by police | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-will-defeat-coronavirus-xi-tells-trump-as-doctors-death-sparks-outcry-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-07 |
WHO scientist Christina Pallitto who worked on the tool said the longterm impacts of infection and pain could also affect girls school attendance and work opportunities | Neutral | An estimated 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM which causes a host of mental and physical health problems including hemorrhaging chronic infections cysts and lifethreatening childbirth complications | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-health-economy-fgm/female-genital-mutilation-hurts-economies-says-who-idUSKBN20103G | 2020-02-07 |
WHO estimated that the health cost of FGM would soar by by 2050 if no action is taken as populations grow and more girls are cut | Neutral | An estimated 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM which causes a host of mental and physical health problems including hemorrhaging chronic infections cysts and lifethreatening childbirth complications | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-global-health-economy-fgm/female-genital-mutilation-hurts-economies-says-who-idUSKBN20103G | 2020-02-07 |
Asked about reports of drug which boosted sentiment on financial markets WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic There are no known effective therapeutics against this 2019nCoV | Negative | Ten more people on a quarantined cruise liner in a Japanese port have tested positive for coronavirus officials said on Thursday as the virus death toll in mainland China hit 563 with almost 3000 new cases reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-virus-death-toll-jumps-past-500-more-cases-on-cruise-ship-off-japan-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-06 |
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that the bans were an unnecessary interruption to travel and trade | Negative | BEIJING Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central Chinas Wuhan city which accounts for over of deaths despite having only onethird the number of confirmed infections | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-deaths/data-suggests-virus-infections-under-reported-exaggerating-fatality-rate-idUSKBN1ZZ1AH | 2020-02-06 |
WHO says no breakthrough reported on coronavirus drugs | Negative | WHO says no breakthrough reported on coronavirus drugs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-gain-after-china-cuts-trade-tariffs-solid-u-s-data-idUSL4N2A61EM | 2020-02-06 |
There is no evidence that such treatments help in fighting the coronavirus Gauden Galea the WHOs representative in China told Reuters on Saturday | Negative | BEIJING The rapidly spreading virus in China and a shortage of medical resources are prompting people to resort to unorthodox ways to obtain treatment with some appealing to HIV patients and unauthorized importers for medicine | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-drugs/desperate-for-coronavirus-solutions-chinese-turn-to-hiv-drugs-gray-market-and-traditional-cures-idUSKBN2000HA | 2020-02-06 |
WHO is coordinating with relevant ministries of health in relation to Olivia LaweDavies a spokeswoman for the WHO said in response to questions from Reuters | Negative | SINGAPORE At least three employees of a multinational company that held a meeting of more than 100 international staff in Singapore have contracted the new coronavirus sparking a World Health Organization investigation of the case | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-singapore-summit/who-investigates-singapore-conference-linked-to-foreign-virus-spread-idUSKBN2000C7 | 2020-02-06 |
WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a multinational WHOled team would go to China very soon to work with Chinese authorities in tackling the outbreak | Positive | GENEVA Hundreds of experts will meet in Geneva next Tuesday and Wednesday to set research and development priorities for coronavirus drugs diagnostics and vaccines to combat the outbreak the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-who-experts/who-convening-experts-on-drugs-vaccines-to-set-coronavirus-research-agenda-idUSKBN1ZZ2CG | 2020-02-06 |
Outside China there have been 191 cases in 24 countries and one death in the Philippines WHO figures show | Negative | GENEVA Hundreds of experts will meet in Geneva next Tuesday and Wednesday to set research and development priorities for coronavirus drugs diagnostics and vaccines to combat the outbreak the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-who-experts/who-convening-experts-on-drugs-vaccines-to-set-coronavirus-research-agenda-idUSKBN1ZZ2CG | 2020-02-06 |
The case provided more evidence the virus is spreading through humantohuman contact outside China which the WHO has said is deeply concerning and could signal a much larger outbreak | Negative | Ten more people on a quarantined cruise liner in a Japanese port have tested positive for coronavirus officials said on Thursday as the virus death toll in mainland China hit 563 with almost 3000 new cases reported | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-virus-death-toll-jumps-past-500-more-cases-on-cruise-ship-off-japan-idUSKBN20003J | 2020-02-06 |
The WHOled mission may include experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Negative | GENEVA Hundreds of experts will meet in Geneva next Tuesday and Wednesday to set research and development priorities for coronavirus drugs diagnostics and vaccines to combat the outbreak the World Health Organization said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-who-experts/who-convening-experts-on-drugs-vaccines-to-set-coronavirus-research-agenda-idUSKBN1ZZ2CG | 2020-02-06 |
You should follow WHO suggestions and refrain from restrictions on international travel or trade stay clear of discriminatory actions and stigmatization | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged all health ministers to improve datasharing on coronavirus immediately and said he would send a team of international experts to work with Chinese counterparts | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-calls-for-improved-data-sharing-on-virus-says-sending-team-to-china-idUSKBN1ZY2IG | 2020-02-05 |
There have been 20471 confirmed cases of coronavirus in China with 176 cases in 24 other countries and one death in the Philippines according to the WHOs latest figures | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged all health ministers to improve datasharing on coronavirus immediately and said he would send a team of international experts to work with Chinese counterparts | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-calls-for-improved-data-sharing-on-virus-says-sending-team-to-china-idUSKBN1ZY2IG | 2020-02-05 |
So far 27 cases of persontoperson spread of the virus have been documented in nine countries outside of China WHO officials said | Negative | GENEVA The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday urged all health ministers to improve datasharing on coronavirus immediately and said he would send a team of international experts to work with Chinese counterparts | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-who/who-calls-for-improved-data-sharing-on-virus-says-sending-team-to-china-idUSKBN1ZY2IG | 2020-02-05 |
WHO director of global hazard preparedness Sylvie Briand said most who had died or suffered severe infections were people with underlying health conditions or the elderly | Negative | HONG The coronavirus outbreak claimed its first life in Hong Kong on Tuesday compounding the international financial centres problems after antigovernment protests and Macau the worlds biggest gambling playground urged casinos to shut their doors | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-virus-claims-second-life-off-mainland-macau-casinos-told-to-close-idUSKBN1ZY05A | 2020-02-05 |
The White House said China had accepted its offer to have U.S. experts as part of a WHO mission to study and help combat the virus | Positive | HONG Hong Kong reported its first death from the newly identified coronavirus on Tuesday the second fatality outside mainland China from an outbreak that has killed over 420 people spread around the world and raised fears for global economic growth | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/hong-kong-records-first-death-from-new-coronavirus-overall-toll-over-420-idUSKBN1ZY05A | 2020-02-04 |
Taiwan is not a WHO member because of Chinas objections | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan dramatically escalated its war of words with Beijing on Tuesday over the islands exclusion from the World Health Organisation saying China was preventing Taiwan from getting timely information about the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-evacuates-first-group-from-wuhan-announces-limit-on-mask-purchases-idUSKBN1ZY03V | 2020-02-04 |
TAIPEI Taiwans foreign ministry said on Tuesday China is for restricting the islands access to WHO during the coronavirus outbreak adding to tensions with Beijing over the growing health crisis | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwans foreign ministry said on Tuesday China is for restricting the islands access to WHO during the coronavirus outbreak adding to tensions with Beijing over the growing health crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-calls-china-vile-for-restricting-islands-access-to-who-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN1ZY0DV | 2020-02-04 |
Washington has unceasingly manufactured and spread Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters noting that the WHO had advised against trade and travel curbs | Negative | China has agreed to allow U.S. health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fastspreading coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-to-allow-in-u-s-health-experts-as-virus-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-idUSKBN1ZX00T | 2020-02-04 |
China told the WHO on Monday that it had shared full information about the coronavirus with Taiwan and that outbreak communication had been between the two sides | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan dramatically escalated its war of words with Beijing on Tuesday over the islands exclusion from the World Health Organisation saying China was preventing Taiwan from getting timely information about the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-evacuates-first-group-from-wuhan-announces-limit-on-mask-purchases-idUSKBN1ZY03V | 2020-02-04 |
It is precisely developed countries like the United States with strong epidemic prevention capabilities and facilities that have taken the lead in imposing excessive restrictions contrary to WHO she said | Negative | China has agreed to allow U.S. health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fastspreading coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-to-allow-in-u-s-health-experts-as-virus-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-idUSKBN1ZX00T | 2020-02-04 |
Although the virus is really serious they are still using the China principle to impede Taiwan from taking part in the WHOs technical she said | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan dramatically escalated its war of words with Beijing on Tuesday over the islands exclusion from the World Health Organisation saying China was preventing Taiwan from getting timely information about the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-evacuates-first-group-from-wuhan-announces-limit-on-mask-purchases-idUSKBN1ZY03V | 2020-02-04 |
The WHOs directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus again said travel bans were unnecessary | Negative | China has agreed to allow U.S. health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fastspreading coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-to-allow-in-u-s-health-experts-as-virus-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-idUSKBN1ZX00T | 2020-02-04 |
The WHO also says Taiwan has been getting the information it needs | Neutral | TAIPEI Taiwan dramatically escalated its war of words with Beijing on Tuesday over the islands exclusion from the World Health Organisation saying China was preventing Taiwan from getting timely information about the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-evacuates-first-group-from-wuhan-announces-limit-on-mask-purchases-idUSKBN1ZY03V | 2020-02-04 |
There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and he told the WHOs executive board in Geneva | Negative | China has agreed to allow U.S. health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fastspreading coronavirus as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-to-allow-in-u-s-health-experts-as-virus-shows-no-sign-of-slowing-idUSKBN1ZX00T | 2020-02-04 |
The WHOs office in Beijing and Italys foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment | Neutral | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
Wang Liangyu Taiwans de facto ambassador in Geneva where the WHO is based told Reuters the procedures needed to be changed as existing WHO channels provided only information | Positive | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
Bob Chen the head of the Taiwan foreign ministrys Department of International Organisations said they had complained repeatedly to the WHO to stop listing Taiwan as part of China | Negative | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
The WHO should not hint that bilateral channels are enough to replace international she said | Positive | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
But to date the WHOs secretariats attitude has been very hardline | Neutral | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
The WHO says it is collaborating closely with Taiwan authorities through International Health Regulations mechanisms in response to the outbreak referring to a 2005 legal instrument governing health reporting requirements | Positive | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
However the WHO while still listing Taiwan as part of China is now referring to it as rather than Taiwan as it did in its initial situation reports Chen said | Negative | TAIPEI Shut out of the World Health Organization Taiwan is facing a dual problem in tackling the threat of a new it is being included as a highrisk area as part of China but is unable to get epidemic information firsthand | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/shut-out-of-who-taiwan-faces-flight-bans-update-delays-in-virus-crisis-idUSKBN1ZX0JK | 2020-02-03 |
The WHO has put Taiwan under China which has misled Italys health department Chiang added | Negative | TAIPEI Taiwan is asking its diplomats to talk to governments where Taiwanese airlines fly to ensure more flights are not cut off due to the islands inclusion by the World Health Organization as part of China due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-scrambles-diplomats-to-keep-flights-going-amid-china-virus-inclusion-idUSKBN1ZW04H | 2020-02-02 |
This simple reality the WHO should not get wrong | Positive | TAIPEI Taiwan is asking its diplomats to talk to governments where Taiwanese airlines fly to ensure more flights are not cut off due to the islands inclusion by the World Health Organization as part of China due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-taiwan/taiwan-scrambles-diplomats-to-keep-flights-going-amid-china-virus-inclusion-idUSKBN1ZW04H | 2020-02-02 |
Nearly 12000 people have been infected globally by the virus according to the WHO with all but just over 130 of those cases occurring in China | Negative | U.S. health officials on Saturday confirmed an eighth case of the fastspreading new coronavirus in the United States and the Pentagon said it would provide housing for people arriving from overseas who might need to be quarantined | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/u-s-confirms-its-eighth-case-of-coronavirus-pentagon-to-provide-quarantine-housing-idUSKBN1ZV3XV | 2020-02-02 |
The WHO which declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Thursday has praised Chinas response to the outbreak | Negative | SHANGHAI The number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China has risen to 259 the countrys health authority said on Saturday as the United States announced new border curbs on foreign nationals who have been in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-coronavirus-toll-rises-to-259-u-s-border-curbs-disrupt-more-flights-idUSKBN1ZV38I | 2020-02-01 |
WHO confident China steps will contain virus | Positive | Nikkei bounces 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asia-shares-fight-for-footing-after-turbulent-week-idUSL4N2A00MR | 2020-01-31 |
The WHO said late Thursday the outbreak was a global emergency but Chinas response so far will reverse the of the virus spread | Negative | Virus spreading but WHO supports Chinas response | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-asian-currencies-arrest-slide-as-who-confident-in-virus-response-idUSL4N2A00OL | 2020-01-31 |
WHO declares virus outbreak an international emergency | Negative | oil gold settlement WHO | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-oil-tumble-on-fears-virus-to-hurt-chinas-economy-idUSL1N29Z1BQ | 2020-01-31 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the body doesnt recommend and actually curbs on travel or trade with China | Negative | The United States warned Americans not to travel to China as the death toll from a new virus reached 213 on Friday and the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/u-s-warns-citizens-against-travel-to-china-as-virus-toll-tops-200-idUSKBN1ZT374 | 2020-01-31 |
A dispenser volume to achieve 2030 seconds of drying time as per WHO recommendations is required for effective hand Hirose who wasnt involved in the study said by email | Positive | In the study volunteers needed at least 2 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-workers-hand-sanitizer/health-workers-may-not-use-hand-sanitizer-properly-idUSKBN1ZT2U9 | 2020-01-31 |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus WHO directorgeneral said the greatest worry was the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems | Negative | SYDNEY Asian share markets fought to regain their footing on Friday as investors clutched at hopes China could contain the coronavirus even as headlines spoke of more cases and mounting deaths | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asia-shares-struggle-for-footing-after-fraught-week-idUSKBN1ZU01N | 2020-01-31 |
We believe these chains of transmission can still be said Mike Ryan Executive Director of the WHOs Health Emergencies Programme | Neutral | Foreign governments flew their citizens out of the epicentre of Chinas coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday as the number of deaths jumped to 133 and the World Health Organization voiced grave about persontoperson spread in three other countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/who-to-reconsider-declaring-global-emergency-as-china-virus-evacuations-begin-idUSKBN1ZR2VG | 2020-01-30 |
Virus death toll rises WHO to reconsider declaring emergency | Negative | Virus death toll rises WHO to reconsider declaring emergency | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-virus-fears-push-asian-stocks-to-7-week-low-boost-safe-haven-assets-idUSL4N29Z14I | 2020-01-30 |
There are 6065 cases of the virus worldwide all but some 70 in China with 132 deaths in the country according to the latest WHO figures | Negative | MOSCOW The World Athletics Indoor Championships scheduled to take place in Nanjing China in March have been postponed until 2021 over fears related to the coronavirus outbreak in the country the sports global governing body said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sport-athletics/world-indoor-champs-in-china-postponed-over-coronavirus-fears-idUSKBN1ZS2TV | 2020-01-30 |
The WHO said its Emergency Committee would reconvene behind closed doors on Thursday to decide whether the rapid spread of the new virus from China now constitutes a global emergency | Negative | Foreign governments flew their citizens out of the epicentre of Chinas coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday as the number of deaths jumped to 133 and the World Health Organization voiced grave about persontoperson spread in three other countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/who-to-reconsider-declaring-global-emergency-as-china-virus-evacuations-begin-idUSKBN1ZR2VG | 2020-01-30 |
The WHOs panel of 16 independent experts twice last week declined to declare an international emergency but will reevaluate the situation on Thursday | Negative | Foreign governments flew their citizens out of the epicentre of Chinas coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday as the number of deaths jumped to 133 and the World Health Organization voiced grave about persontoperson spread in three other countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hubei/who-to-reconsider-declaring-global-emergency-as-china-virus-evacuations-begin-idUSKBN1ZR2VG | 2020-01-30 |
WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier declined to comment beyond what he told a news briefing earlier on Tuesday | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
Outside of China there have now been 45 confirmed cases in 13 countries with no deaths so far the WHOs spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday | Negative | BERLIN Four people who work at the same company in southern Germany have been infected with the coronavirus and one of them contracted it from a colleague visiting their workplace in China officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-germany/four-co-workers-in-germany-contract-coronavirus-after-chinese-colleague-visits-idUSKBN1ZR057 | 2020-01-29 |
Essentially the WHO is between a rock and a hard said Jeremy Farrar an expert in infectious disease epidemics and director of the Wellcome Trust global health charity | Neutral | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
A WHO panel of 16 independent experts twice last week declined to declare an international emergency | Negative | BEIJING President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China was sure of defeating a coronavirus that has killed 106 people but international alarm was rising as the outbreak spread across the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-vows-to-beat-devil-virus-as-countries-rush-to-evacuate-citizens-idUSKBN1ZR0CF | 2020-01-29 |
He restated that the WHOs criteria for a global emergency include a serious or health situation that affects other countries and may require a coordinated international response | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
The WHO said a case in Vietnam involved humantohuman transmission outside China and a Japanese official has said there was a suspected case of humantohuman transmission there too | Negative | BERLIN Four people who work at the same company in southern Germany have been infected with the coronavirus and one of them contracted it from a colleague visiting their workplace in China officials said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-germany/four-co-workers-in-germany-contract-coronavirus-after-chinese-colleague-visits-idUSKBN1ZR057 | 2020-01-29 |
Tedros can reconvene the panel on very short notice as needed the WHO said | Neutral | BEIJING President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China was sure of defeating a coronavirus that has killed 106 people but international alarm was rising as the outbreak spread across the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-vows-to-beat-devil-virus-as-countries-rush-to-evacuate-citizens-idUSKBN1ZR0CF | 2020-01-29 |
So I do believe that the WHO is going to have to declare an emergency and is going to have to take the lead | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
The WHO has reported a suspected case of persontoperson transmission in Vietnam and Japan another | Negative | BEIJING The United States and Japan flew citizens out of the Chinese city at the epicentre of a new virus outbreak on Wednesday as the death toll rose sharply to 132 and the first case appeared in the Middle East | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-hubei-cases/china-virus-toll-passes-130-japan-evacuates-citizens-idUSKBN1ZR2VG | 2020-01-29 |
The WHOs 16member expert panel is being kept in the and could be reconvened at any time to reassess the outbreak | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
The WHO has declared five global emergencies in the past decade including the ongoing Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
The Emergency Committee deliberations are secret and its members have been told not to speak about their debate several WHO officials told Reuters | Negative | Tuesdays story with no changes to | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/china-health-who-emergency/rpt-who-weighs-science-and-politics-in-global-virus-emergency-decision-idUSL8N29Y15J | 2020-01-29 |
China will strengthen international cooperation and welcomes the WHO participation in virus prevention | Positive | BEIJING President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China was sure of defeating a coronavirus that has killed 106 people but international alarm was rising as the outbreak spread across the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-vows-to-beat-devil-virus-as-countries-rush-to-evacuate-citizens-idUSKBN1ZR0CF | 2020-01-29 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was on his way to Beijing to meet officials and health experts dealing with the coronavirus | Positive | Residents of Chinas Hubei province where the new coronavirus outbreak was first reported will be banned from entering Hong Kong from Monday as China tries to halt the rapid spread of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/hong-kong-bans-entry-of-visitors-from-china-virus-province-idUSKBN1ZP02B | 2020-01-27 |
The WHO said on Thursday it was a bit too to designate the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern which would require countries to step up their response | Negative | BEIJING A new coronavirus that has killed 26 people in China was confirmed in Europe for the first time on Friday as it spreads despite Chinese attempts to quarantine the city at the heart of the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health/china-heads-into-lunar-new-year-on-shutdown-as-virus-spreads-to-europe-idUSKBN1ZM087 | 2020-01-25 |
The WHO said that while the outbreak was an emergency for China it was not yet a global health emergency | Negative | An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has killed 41 people and infected more than 1300 globally | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-virus-factbox/factbox-the-latest-on-the-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN1ZO00Y | 2020-01-25 |
Too early to declare China virus a global emergency WHO | Negative | European shares gain 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-european-stocks-climb-as-economic-data-fuels-growth-hopes-idUSL8N29T1Z8 | 2020-01-25 |
WHO says virus outbreak a China emergency not global | Negative | EM stocks FX indexes to log first weekly fall in eight | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/emerging-markets/emerging-markets-assets-stable-still-set-for-first-weekly-decline-in-more-than-a-month-idUSL8N29T1Z4 | 2020-01-25 |
Most of the fatalities have been in elderly patients many with preexisting conditions the WHO said | Neutral | BEIJING The death toll from Chinas coronavirus outbreak jumped on Saturday to 41 from 26 a day earlier as the Lunar New Year got off to a gloomy start with authorities curbing travel and cancelling public gatherings | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-virus-death-toll-rises-to-41-more-than-1300-infected-worldwide-idUSKBN1ZO005 | 2020-01-25 |
Make no mistake though this is an emergency in said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Positive | WUHAN China China stepped up measures to contain a virus which has killed 25 people and infected more than 800 with public transport suspensions in 10 cities temples shutting and the rapid construction of a new hospital to treat those infected | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health/china-shuts-down-transport-temples-as-virus-death-toll-rises-to-25-idUSKBN1ZM087 | 2020-01-24 |
Make no mistake though this is an emergency in Tedros told a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organisation said on Thursday that the new coronavirus that has emerged in China and spread to several other countries does not yet constitute an international emergency but it was tracking its evolution every | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-geneva/who-says-not-declaring-virus-a-global-emergency-but-taking-it-seriously-idUSKBN1ZM2TY | 2020-01-24 |
Too early to declare China virus a global health emergency WHO | Negative | Too early to declare China virus a global health emergency WHO | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-steady-as-caution-on-china-virus-continues-euro-hits-7-week-low-after-ecb-idUSL4N29T053 | 2020-01-24 |
WHO officials said that they have not seen third or fourth generation transmission of the virus in China or secondary level spread in countries where it has spread | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organisation directorgeneral said on Wednesday that measures being taken in the Chinese city of Wuhan to close down transport to limit spread of the new coronavirus showed commitment to minimising risks locally and abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-wuhan/who-commends-china-measures-in-wuhan-to-limit-virus-spread-idUSKBN1ZL2X2 | 2020-01-23 |
While the WHO has yet to recommend trade or travel restrictions some Chinese travel booking platforms and airlines have offered free cancellations for Wuhan trips | Negative | An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has killed 17 and infected nearly 600 people globally | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-virus-factbox/what-we-know-about-the-new-coronavirus-spreading-in-china-and-beyond-idUSKBN1ZM0C7 | 2020-01-23 |
The decision is one I take extremely seriously and one I am only prepared to make with appropriate consideration of all the WHO directorgeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it will decide on Thursday whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flulike virus spreading in and beyond China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-will-decide-on-thursday-if-china-virus-is-a-global-health-emergency-idUSKBN1ZL2SN | 2020-01-23 |
He was speaking after the WHO held a daylong meeting of an independent panel of experts in Geneva on Wednesday | Positive | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it will decide on Thursday whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flulike virus spreading in and beyond China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-will-decide-on-thursday-if-china-virus-is-a-global-health-emergency-idUSKBN1ZL2SN | 2020-01-23 |
This is an evolving and complex said WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Negative | Deaths from Chinas new flulike virus rose to 17 on Wednesday with more than 540 cases confirmed leading the city at the center of the outbreak to close transportation networks and urge citizens not to leave as fears rose of the contagion spreading | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-transmission/chinas-wuhan-shuts-down-transport-as-global-alarm-mounts-over-virus-spread-idUSKBN1ZL07C | 2020-01-23 |
The WHOs head of emergencies program Mike Ryan said the priority now was to find the roots of how the virus is passing between people | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organization said it will decide on Thursday whether to declare a global emergency over the outbreak of a new flulike virus spreading in and beyond China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who/who-says-will-decide-on-thursday-if-china-virus-is-a-global-health-emergency-idUSKBN1ZL2SN | 2020-01-23 |
The WHOs head of emergencies program Mike Ryan said the priority was to find the roots of how the virus was passing between people | Negative | Deaths from Chinas new flulike virus rose to 17 on Wednesday with more than 540 cases confirmed leading the city at the center of the outbreak to close transportation networks and urge citizens not to leave as fears rose of the contagion spreading | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-transmission/chinas-wuhan-shuts-down-transport-as-global-alarm-mounts-over-virus-spread-idUSKBN1ZL07C | 2020-01-23 |
Information about newly reported infections suggest there may now be sustained humantohuman said WHOs regional director for the western Pacific Takeshi Kasai | Negative | BEIJING The toll from the Wuhan coronavirus in China rose to six deaths on Tuesday and the first case was reported in the United States sending markets tumbling on fears of economic damage as tourists canceled travel plans and airports stepped up screening | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-deaths/china-virus-spreads-to-u-s-curbing-travel-plans-and-spooking-markets-idUSKBN1ZJ2D2 | 2020-01-22 |
Though the origin of the virus has yet to be identified WHO said the primary source was probably animal | Negative | The death toll from a new flulike coronavirus in China rose to nine on Wednesday with 440 confirmed cases Chinese health officials said as authorities stepped up efforts to control the outbreak by discouraging public gatherings in Hubei province | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-transmission/china-virus-toll-rises-to-nine-as-pandemic-fears-grow-idUSKBN1ZL07C | 2020-01-22 |
So far the WHO has not recommended trade or travel restrictions but they may be discussed on Wednesday | Negative | BEIJING The toll from the Wuhan coronavirus in China rose to six deaths on Tuesday and the first case was reported in the United States sending markets tumbling on fears of economic damage as tourists canceled travel plans and airports stepped up screening | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-deaths/china-virus-spreads-to-u-s-curbing-travel-plans-and-spooking-markets-idUSKBN1ZJ2D2 | 2020-01-22 |
WHO meets Wednesday to consider severity of virus outbreak | Negative | China stocks fall further as virus toll reaches 9 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-china-stocks-tumble-on-virus-outbreak-but-regional-markets-steady-idUSL4N29R0T0 | 2020-01-22 |
So far the WHO has not recommended trade or travel restrictions but such measures could be discussed at Wednesdays emergency meeting | Negative | SHANGHAI China reported a fourth death from a new coronavirus on Tuesday as the number of cases continued to rise sending jitters through Asian markets as hundreds of millions of Chinese prepared to travel for the Lunar New Year holiday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-deaths/china-virus-outbreak-spooks-global-markets-as-fourth-death-reported-idUSKBN1ZJ2D2 | 2020-01-21 |
The WHO says an animal source appears most likely to be the primary source of the outbreak | Negative | Chinese authorities and the World Health Organization say a new strain of coronavirus is behind the outbreak of pneumonia in the central city of Wuhan that has now spread to other parts of the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-factbox/factbox-new-coronavirus-outbreak-spreads-in-china-idUSKBN1ZJ039 | 2020-01-21 |
So far the WHO has not recommended trade or travel restrictions but a panel of independent experts could do so or make other recommendations to limit spread | Negative | BEIJING An outbreak of a new coronavirus has spread to more Chinese cities including the capital Beijing and Shanghai authorities said on Monday and a fourth case has been reported beyond Chinas borders | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/as-virus-spreads-to-more-chinese-cities-who-calls-emergency-meeting-idUSKBN1ZJ001 | 2020-01-21 |
GENEVA The World Health Organisation is convening an emergency committee of experts on Wednesday to assess whether the coronavirus outbreak in China constitutes an international emergency the WHO said on Monday | Negative | GENEVA The World Health Organisation is convening an emergency committee of experts on Wednesday to assess whether the coronavirus outbreak in China constitutes an international emergency the WHO said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-who/who-emergency-committee-on-coronavirus-to-meet-on-wednesday-idUSKBN1ZJ22G | 2020-01-21 |
The United States and most Asian countries have stepped up screenings of travelers from Wuhan and the WHO has warned hospitals worldwide that a wider outbreak is possible | Negative | BEIJING Health authorities are concerned that a virus originating in central China could spread when hundreds of millions of Chinese travel during next weeks lunar new year festival but residents said there were was little anxiety in the city at the epicenter | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-wuhan/virus-casts-shadow-over-chinas-biggest-festival-but-little-worry-at-epicenter-idUSKBN1ZH05Q | 2020-01-19 |
Beijing has stepped up disinfection efforts in major transportation hubs while the WHO has given guidance to hospitals worldwide on infection prevention and control | Neutral | SHANGHAI A second person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following an outbreak believed to be caused by a new coronavirus strain local health authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/china-says-second-person-dies-in-wuhan-pneumonia-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZG01B | 2020-01-18 |
WHO said in a statement on Thursday it advises against any travel or trade restrictions based on current information available however | Negative | SHANGHAI A second person has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan following an outbreak believed to be caused by a new coronavirus strain local health authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/china-says-second-person-dies-in-wuhan-pneumonia-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZG01B | 2020-01-18 |
WHO has said there may have been limited humantohuman transmission of the new coronavirus in China within families | Negative | BEIJING The U.S. State Department warned Americans in China about an outbreak of pneumonia in the central city of Wuhan believed to be caused by a new strain of coronavirus which has killed one person | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-usa/u-s-warns-citizens-in-china-about-pneumonia-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZE0NM | 2020-01-16 |
25 when many Chinese tourists visit Thailand the WHO called on Thai authorities the public and holidaymakers to be on alert | Negative | GENEVA There may have been limited humantohuman transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak the World Health Organization said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-who/who-says-new-china-coronavirus-could-spread-warns-hospitals-worldwide-idUSKBN1ZD16J | 2020-01-15 |
The Chinese outbreak appeared to be linked to a single seafood market in Wuhan and had not so far spread beyond there the WHO said | Negative | BANGKOK A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus authorities said on Monday the first time it has been detected outside China | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-thailand/chinese-woman-with-mystery-virus-quarantined-in-thailand-idUSKBN1ZC0ZF | 2020-01-14 |
The possibility of cases being identified in other countries was not unexpected and reinforces why WHO calls for ongoing active monitoring and preparedness in other its statement said | Positive | BANGKOK A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus authorities said on Monday the first time it has been detected outside China | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-thailand/chinese-woman-with-mystery-virus-quarantined-in-thailand-idUSKBN1ZC0ZF | 2020-01-14 |
WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will consult with international experts to assess the public health risks of outbreaks and decide whether an emergency meeting is needed it said | Negative | BANGKOK A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus authorities said on Monday the first time it has been detected outside China | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-thailand/chinese-woman-with-mystery-virus-quarantined-in-thailand-idUSKBN1ZC0ZF | 2020-01-14 |
The WHO said preliminary epidemiological investigations had found most cases were in people who either worked at or were frequent visitors to Wuhans Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market | Neutral | LONDON An outbreak of pneumonia that has killed one person in China and infected 40 others appears to be linked to a single seafood market in the central city of Wuhan and has not so far spread beyond there the World Health Organization said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-china-virus/china-virus-outbreak-linked-to-seafood-market-not-currently-spreading-who-idUSKBN1ZB0LQ | 2020-01-13 |
Chinas National Health Commission said in a separate statement that it would share information on the genome sequence of the coronavirus with the WHO to safeguard global health security | Positive | SHANGHAI A 61yearold man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of a yet to be identified virus while seven others are in critical condition the Wuhan health authorities said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia/man-infected-with-mystery-virus-in-china-dies-after-outbreak-idUSKBN1ZA00D | 2020-01-12 |