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Ban flavoured vapes, WHO says, urging tobacco-style controls

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged governments to treat e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco and ban all flavours, threatening cigarette companies' bets on...

Gaza cease-fire demands grow amid ‘reprehensible’ attacks near hospital

As Israel pummels the area around Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, global organizations are rallying behind calls for an immediate cease-fire in the war...

Bavarian Nordic monkeypox vaccine wins EU approval

Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic said on Monday the European Commission had given permission for its Imvanex vaccine to be marketed as protection against...

Some European countries are scrapping all Covid rules despite scientists warning it’s too soon

Several European countries are scrapping Covid regulations, despite the World Health Organization (WHO) urging governments to protect their people using every tool in the...

WHO: Omicron poses very high global risk, world must prepare

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that the heavily mutated Omicron coronavirus variant is likely to spread internationally and poses a very...

WHO Europe chief voices ‘grave concern’ about COVID rebound

Europe and Central Asia faces the “real threat” of a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the coming weeks or already is experiencing a...

Covid: China rejects WHO plan for second phase of virus origin probe

China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which...

EU undecided on mix-and-match, boosters for COVID-19 shots

Europe's drug regulator on Wednesday refrained from making any recommendations on mixing shots of COVID-19 vaccines from different drugmakers and said it was too...

WHO: Mobilization funds to support youth to overcome Covid-19 pandemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that their collaboration with the United Nations Foundation and the world’s six largest youth organizations will...

European Commission proposes ‘Digital Green Certificate’ for travel

The European Commission announced on Wednesday in a press release that it is proposing to create a COVID-19 'Digital Green Certificate' that will facilitate...