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Covid: "We are at a critical moment" of the pandemic, WHO admits

As Covid-19 contamination rates worldwide keep on growing for the seventh week in a row, the World Health Organization considers a critical threshold has been reached. Authorities condemn totally irresponsible behaviors "in some countries", while vaccination is slipping in Europe and other places in the world. A few months ago already, the body warned on the possibility of other pandemic - more severe than Covid - were likely to break out in a more or less distant future.

Covid: WHO does not recommend hydroxychloroquine as a preventive drug against the disease

This Tuesday March 2, WHO announced in a memo released in the British Medical Journal that Hydroxychloroquine was not recommended as a preventive drug against Covid, relying on six randomized clinical trials, results have shown the inefficiency of the product to fight against severe coronavirus. In addition to those studies, a study carried out by Epi-phare, lead to the same conclusion.

AstraZeneca vaccine now approved in France for people aged 65-74

After being recommended this past February 10 by WHO for people aged 65+, AstraZeneca vaccine has also been approved in France for people between the age of 65 and 75. This is what Olivier Véran announced on Monday March 1, 2021 on France 2, during an interview.

Covid: handmade fabric facemasks as effective as surgical masks, WHO says

As Olivier Véran and the Haute Autorité de Santé no longer recommend handmade cloth facemask to keep one safe from Covid variant, this Friday January 22, 2021, WHO addressed the issue, pointing the contrary. A statement followed by the National Academy of Medicine recommending French to keep on wearing them.

Covid: no herd immunity in 2021 despite vaccines, WHO says

This Monday January 11, 2021 WHO said that herd immunity to Covid-19 was not to happen this year, despite vaccines issued on the market and vaccine campaigns that started around the world.

[LIVE] WHO’s World Health Assembly on May 18 and 19, 2020

The World Health Organization is hosting the 73rd World Health Assembly for 10 days starting this Monday May 18, 2020. The heads of States keep this meeting, via videoconference on 2 days, and plan to address fair access to technologies, medications, and vaccines against coronavirus.

Coronavirus: deconfinement is not the end of Covid-19 WHO says

WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus, who already alerted on a brutal deconfinement that could lead to a second coronavirus wave, sounds the alarm again and says this Monday: "We want to re-emphasize that easing restrictions is not the end of the epidemic in any country"