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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global outbreak of coronavirus – an infectious disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Cases of novel coronavirus (nCoV...
As new diseases emerge and old ones resurge, pandemic preparedness has become a critical concern for global health. The new Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) report – The changing face of pandemic risk: Adap...
Even though vaccines protect against severe disease and death, it is still possible to spread SARS-CoV-2 to others after being vaccinated. WHO response The World Health Organization is the global coordinating agency f...
Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) today formally adopted by consensus the world's first Pandemic Agreement. The landmark decision by the 78th World Health Assembly culminates more than three years o...
Information on COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus.
Over the past two days, WHO convened more than 15 countries and over 20 regional health agencies, health emergency networks and other partners to test, for the first time, a new global coordination mechanism for healt...
The catch-cry of the COVID-19 pandemic remains true: no one is safe until everyone is safe. No country can protect itself by itself. Bilateral agreements will only get you so far. Prevention is the responsibility of a...
A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease.An influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus emerges and spreads around the world, and most people do not have immunity. Viruses that have caused past pan...
An influenza pandemic is a global epidemic caused by a new influenza virus to which there is little or no pre-existing immunity in the human population. Influenza pandemics are impossible to predict; and they may be m...
To make pandemic planning efficient and integrated, the checklist focuses on similar capacities that can be leveraged for different respiratory pathogens of pandemic potential, including the threat of a novel respirat...
