Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

A U.S. panel on Feb. 26 recommended Johnson & Johnson's one-dose Covid-19 shot for emergency approval, as some of the world's most powerful countries issued a unified call for better vaccine access for poorer nations.

Japan launched its coronavirus vaccination programme on Feb. 17, five months ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, as the World Health Organization reported a fall in new cases around the world.

The All-Ukrainian Forum 'Ukraine 30. Coronavirus: Challenges and Responses' began with addresses from Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyy.

The World Health Organization on Feb. 5 called on vaccine makers to dramatically boost production, as U.S. president Joe Biden warned the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic was pushing the United States towards "breaking point".

He pointed out that the fight over coronavirus vaccines could cause even greater inequalities in the world.
Speaking at a panel at the World Business Forum in Davos yesterday, Tedros said that there is now the real danger that the very tools that could help to end the pandemic, vaccines, may exacerbate those same inequalities.

The global death toll from Covid-19 surpassed two million on Jan. 15, with the World Health Organization (WHO) urging mass vaccinations as the pandemic progresses at a record pace.

As of 1825 GMT on Friday, at least 2,000,066 people worldwide had been confirmed dead of the virus that first emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, according to an AFP tally.

Senior officials of the World Health Organization have warned that  there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world, in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The head of the World Health Organisation has said he is "very disappointed" China has denied its experts access to investigating the origins of coronavirus.

The head of the World Health Organization said on Jan. 5 that he is "disappointed" Chinese officials haven't finalized the permissions to allow a team of experts into China to examine the origins of COVID-19.

A swath of EU nations begin vaccinating their most vulnerable groups on Dec. 27 as a reputedly more contagious coronavirus variant spread internationally and the WHO warned that the current pandemic would not be the last.