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Aug 9, 2023 · The World Health Organization is the global coordinating agency for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Organization works with Member States and partners on all aspects of the pandemic response, including facilitating research, developing guidance, coordinating vaccine development and distribution, and monitoring daily case numbers and trends around the world.
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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) were first detected in China in December 2019, with the virus spreading rapidly to other countries across the world.
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most people infected with the virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require medical attention. Older people and those with underlying medical ...
Oct 13, 2020 · Reading time: 3 min (864 words) The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating: tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty ...
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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 pandemics typically originated from animal influenza viruses.
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May 20, 2021 · The latest data on Global excess deaths associated with COVID-19 (modelled estimates) are published here. On 30 January 2020 COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) with an official death toll of 171. By 31 December 2020, this figure stood at 1 813 188. Yet preliminary estimates suggest the total number ...
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During the biennium 2020-2021, countries put up enormous efforts to address the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, with the world’s largest and fastest vaccination drive ever to rollout new COVID-19 vaccines. Despite this, 3.5 million lives were lost to the disease and vaccine hoarding and nationalism led to stark inequities.
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Jun 10, 2024 · A Pandemic Emergency aims to trigger a more effective international collaboration in response to events that are at risk of becoming, or have become, a pandemic. Each and all of the six following criteria must be met for an “event” (which, according to the IHR, means a manifestation of disease or an occurrence that creates a potential for disease) to be determined a “Pandemic Emergency”.
Aug 11, 2021 · The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our world and cost millions their lives. It’s disrupted economies and education systems and taken away livelihoods. Governments, businesses and individuals have been forced to adapt rapidly, in many cases leaning on an existing digital transformation that was already underway.
