Christian Lindmeier

More than a dozen member states of the World Health Organization submitted a draft resolution on Friday that urged Israel to respect its obligations under international law to protect humanitarian workers in Gaza.

As they stated, there are bodies around the hospital that cannot be taken to morgues or buried.
WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said that around 600 people remained in hospital, the BBC reports.

It was detected in South Africa and is labelled as B.1.1.529.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that a report that Covid-19 had emerged in December in France, sooner than previously thought, was "not surprising," and urged countries to investigate any other early suspicious cases.

WHO demanded that the countries should not let go of the imposed measures too early, a WHO Spokesman said on Tuesday, "Voice of America" reports.
"One of the most important parts is not to let go of the measures too early in order not to have a fall back again," WHO Spokesman Christian Lindmeier said in a virtual briefing on Tuesday.

The Dominican Republic said on Jan. 23 that it has 10 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the ailment suspected of causing serious birth defects in newborns.

Altagracia Guzman, the Caribbean country's health minister, said lab testing of samples sent to the United States had confirmed Zika in 10 out of 27 suspected cases.