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Nearly 4,000 four people die every day on global road traffic crashes

Published on: October 28, 2021
17:31

Geneva, Oct 28 (Prensa Latina) Globally, over 3,500 people die every day on the roads. This amounts to nearly 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50 million injuries each -making it the leading killer of children and young people worlwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Thursday.

Ending Covid-19 is an urgent priority

Published on: October 27, 2021
17:00

Geneva, Oct 27 (Prensa Latina) One of the most pressing global priorities is to put an end to Covid-19, according to a new book by the Global Governance Project supported by the World Health Organization (WHO).

WHO calls on G20 to redeploy the economy for health-for-all goals

Published on: October 26, 2021
18:08

Geneva, Oct 26 (Prensa Latina) Experts on Tuesday called on a radical economic reorientation in the interests of health for all, prior to the G20 Summit to be held on October 30, in Rome, Italy.

WHO calls for action to better protect healthcare professionals

Published on: October 22, 2021
09:48

Geneva, Oct 22 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) today demanded urgent action to better protect professionals who fight against Covid-19.

WHO estimates 150,000 healthcare workers died by Covid-19

Published on: October 21, 2021
17:28

Geneva, Oct 21 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday reported that about 150,000 healthcare workers have died by coronavirus since the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020.

Harsh reality inequity in anti-Covid-19 vaccination

Published on: October 19, 2021
11:21

Geneva, Oct 19 (Prensa Latina) The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today described as a harsh global reality the inequity in the application of anti-Covid-19 vaccines.

Mexico gives some details of reopening of border with US

Published on: October 17, 2021
12:26

Mexico, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) The Mexican government on Sunday provided some details about the reopening of the border with the United States planned by President Joe Biden for November.

WHO warns about real toll of Covid-19 cases in Africa

Published on: October 14, 2021
17:37

Geneva, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) The real toll of Covid-19 cases in Africa could reach up to 59 million and not 8.5 as previously reported, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

Covid-19 reverses years of world progress against tuberculosis

Published on: October 14, 2021
16:16

Geneva, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) Covid-19 reversed years of global progress in the fight against tuberculosis and, for the first time in more than a decade, the deaths from the latter increased, an official document revealed on Thursday.

WHO warns of the actual number of Covid-19 cases in Africa

Published on: October 14, 2021
16:15

Geneva, Oct 14 (Prensa Latina) The actual number of Covid-19 cases in Africa could reach 59 million and not 8.5 million as reported, the World Health Organization (WHO) referred today.

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