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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has flagged another batch of India-manufactured cough syrup.

Top scientists believe that the UK is not prepared for another COVID-19-like pandemic.

In the year 2021, there were 38.4 million people worldwide living with HIV, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with a staggering 650,000 deaths.

The new variant is believed to be more contagious than the original strain of COVID-19, with estimates suggesting it could be up to 70% more transmissible.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has often been involved in Twitter spats, and the latest to join the list is the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Poorer countries are increasingly losing healthcare workers to wealthier ones as the latter seek to shore up their own staff losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes through active recruitment, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

Governments should invest in vaccines for all strains of influenza virus that exist in the animal kingdom as an insurance policy in case of an outbreak in humans, the incoming chief scientist at the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon have confirmed the outbreak of the Marburg virus that is similar to the Ebola virus, on Monday.

Nearly 650 million confirmed Covid cases and more than 6.6 million deaths have been reported to the WHO

The British government said on Monday it would contribute 1 billion pounds ($1.18 billion) to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, more than six weeks after other countries made their commitments.

Global exposure is possible as the "manufacturer may have used the same contaminated material in other products and distributed them locally or exported" them.

A senior Chinese official on Saturday warned people to avoid physical contact with foreigners so as to prevent getting the monkeypox infection.

Health officials in Europe are discussing whether to follow a move by the United States to stretch out scarce monkeypox vaccine supplies, with the World Health Organization calling for more data.

China has reported cases of a potentially fatal new virus called Langya, which is believed to have been transferred from shrews to humans.

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WHO emergency committee meets on monkeypox

Monkeypox appears to be spreading from person to person in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Wednesday.

The monkeypox outbreak has spread to 30 countries in less than a month.

It is unclear what is driving the outbreak, with scientists trying to understand the origin of the cases and whether anything about the virus has changed.

Those who suspect they may have been exposed or who show symptoms including bumpy rash and fever, should avoid close contact with others

The WHO believes that generally, six in 10 deaths worldwide are not formally recorded.

The WHO called on Pfizer to "make its pricing and deals more transparent" for Paxlovid.

Some countries are still witnessing serious spikes in cases, which is putting pressure on hospitals

The researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have found that pet hamsters were the most likely source of the latest Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong. The Delta variant of the coronavirus has been leading the current surge in the region.

He cautioned that the optimistic scenario required countries to pursue vaccination campaigns and surveillance to detect new variants.

The risk of transmission from animals "remains low", the World Health Organization has said, but is a possibility.

Some 45,000 deaths from the disease were still being registered worldwide every week.

Guterres said the international community needs to "confront the pandemic with equity and fairness."

The WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge described a "new west-to-east tidal wave sweeping across" the region.

Just under 9.5 million new Covid-19 cases were reported to the WHO last week -- a record, up 71 percent on the week before.