GENEVA, July 24 — Gaza is suffering man-made mass starvation caused by a blockade on aid into the Palestinian enclave, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.

GENEVA, Aug 14 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has convened an emergency committee to discuss the outbreak of viral disease mpox, as cases are occurring globally, according to dpa.

GENEVA, June 21 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned today that scorching heat in the Gaza Strip could exacerbate health problems for Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombardment and heavy fighting between its forces and Hamas.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) prequalified a new dengue vaccine TAK-003 on May 10.

ABUJA — Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out the "revolutionary" new Men5CV vaccine against meningitis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 6 — Israel’s recent order for the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remove its supplies from the medical warehouse in southern Gaza within 24 hours as the regime continues its offensive ground operations is blatantly inhumane and violates international law.

GENEVA, Nov 19 —The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Saturday it led a team of United Nations (UN) agencies on an assessment mission to the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, describing it as a 'death zone.

JERUSALEM, Nov 8 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) released a report stating that Israel's attacks on healthcare facilities in occupied Palestinian territory resulted in the deaths of 509 Palestinians, including patients and healthcare personnel, and injuries to 447 people.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) has denied the claim that nurses in the country will be injected with the Virus X vaccine against Disease X, a name coined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for an unknown pathogen predicted to be a new pandemic threat.

GENEVA, April 22 — The World Health Organisation said Friday that 413 people have died in the current Sudan conflict, while the UN children's agency said children are paying a high price, with at least nine reportedly killed in the fighting and more than 50 badly injured.

REUTERS, April 4 — About one in six adults globally have experienced infertility at least once in their life, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said in a report on Monday, urging countries to actively collect more consistent data on the disease.

GENEVA, April 4 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and its director-general called on global leaders Monday to take action to protect and invest in health and care workers responding to health and climate emergencies.

LOS ANGELES, Aug 11 — Confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States have exceeded the mark of 10,000, reaching 10,392 cases Wednesday, according to the newest data released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country's national public health agency, reported Xinhua.

GENEVA, Nov 29 — The new Covid-19 variant Omicron poses a “very high” risk globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday.

SEOUL, Dec 22 — North Korea has conducted coronavirus tests on more than 10,000 people but no outbreak has been reported in the country yet, a World Health Organisation report showed Tuesday.

NEW YORK/GENEVA, Nov 17 — Global Covid-19 cases topped 55 million on Tuesday, according to the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, reported Xinhua news agency.

MOSCOW, May 29 — Hundreds of thousands of smokers are wanting to quit during the global pandemic of the Covid-19 lung disease, said Ruediger Krech, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) director of Health Promotion, reported Sputnik News Agency.

ANKARA, April 19 — Global fatalities from the novel coronavirus surpassed 160,000 on Sunday, according to a running tally by the United States (US)-based Johns Hopkins University, reported Anadolu Agency.

ANKARA, March 9 — The novel coronavirus, officially known as Covid-19, infected more than 110,000 people across the world, Anadolu agency reported based on a data-collecting website "Worldometer".