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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
