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WHO says no evidence healthy kids, teens need COVID boosters

Reuters
Posted at Jan 19 12:08 PM

There is no evidence at present that healthy children and adolescents need booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organization's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Tuesday. Read more »

COVID pandemic 'nowhere near over': WHO

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jan 19 08:29 AM

The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, the World Health Organization chief said Tuesday, cautioning against a narrative that the fast-spreading Omicron variant is risk-free. Read more »

WHO approves two new COVID-19 treatments

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 14 07:33 AM

The World Health Organization approved two new Covid-19 treatments on Friday, growing the arsenal of tools along with vaccines to stave off severe illness. Read more »

'Bilang ng aktuwal na may COVID, posibleng mas mataas kaysa sa mga nauulat'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 13 08:05 PM

Ang numerong nakikita ngayon ay maaaring iba umano sa aktuwal na bilang ng mga may COVID-19 sa mga komunidad. Read more »

IHU variant hasn't shown capacity to predominate in transmission: WHO

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 12 02:57 PM

The IHU variant has not shown the capacity to predominate in transmission, the WHO representative to the Philippines said Wednesday. Read more »

WHO to PH: Reserve confirmatory testing for symptomatic, vulnerable

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 12 06:00 PM

Targeted testing is a better use of the Philippines' resources, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Read more »

WHO 'sole authority' to classify variants, says DOH

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 10 03:41 PM

The WHO is the sole authority that can classify new COVID-19 variants, the DOH said Monday following reports of alleged variants delmicron, deltacron and flurona. Read more »

WHO: Omicron may be less severe in young, but not ‘mild’

Mrinalika Roy, Reuters
Posted at Jan 07 04:31 AM

The impact on the elderly is one of the big unanswered questions about Omicron as most of the cases studied so far have been in younger people. Read more »

Omicron posibleng magbigay ng herd immunity?

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 05 08:19 PM

Ayon sa isang eksperto, maaaring magbigay ng herd immunity ang omicron variant sa pamamagitan ng 'natural immunity through infection.' Read more »

Pilipinas di na kulelat sa COVID resiliency ranking

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 23 10:28 PM

Umakyat na ang puwesto ng Pilipinas sa pinakabagong COVID-19 Resilience Ranking ng Bloomberg. Read more »

AstraZeneca: 3rd jab 'significantly' boosts Omicron antibodies

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 23 06:03 PM

AstraZeneca said that a third, or "booster", dose of its COVID-19 vaccine "significantly" lifted antibody levels against Omicron in a study. Read more »

No country can boost its way out of pandemic: WHO chief

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 23 02:02 PM

The World Health Organization chief warned Wednesday that the rush in wealthy countries to roll out additional Covid vaccine doses was deepening the inequity in access to jabs that is prolonging the pandemic. Read more »

WHO issues emergency use listing for Nuvaxovid

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 21 11:05 PM

The World Health Organization has issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for Nuvaxovid, bringing the total number of COVID-19 vaccines with EUL issued to 10. Read more »

WHO: Mag-ingat sa mga pagdiriwang sa Pasko

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 21 07:48 PM

May panawagan ang World Health Organization kasabay ng pagdiriwang ng Pasko at patuloy na pagkalat ng omicron variant ng COVID-19. Read more »

WHO issues emergency use listing for Covovax

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 21 03:21 PM

The World Health Organization has issued an emergency use listing for Covovax, which paves the way for its delivery to the Philippines, its distributor in Manila said. Read more »

Omicron cases doubling in 1.5 to 3 days in areas with local spread - WHO

Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Posted at Dec 20 12:22 PM

The Omicron coronavirus variant has been reported in 89 countries and the number of cases is doubling in 1.5 to 3 days in areas with community transmission, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. Read more »

PH yet to confirm Omicron transmission from 2 infected patients

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 18 03:14 AM

There's no indication that the first two Omicron COVID patients in the Philippines have infected anyone else. Read more »

Omicron magiging kalat, dapat paghandaan ng Pinas: WHO

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 17 07:48 PM

Kahit mababa ang bilang ng COVID-19 cases sa bansa, di dapat magpakakampante sa banta ng bagong variant, ayon sa WHO. Read more »

Some 20,000 participants sought for WHO Solidarity trial for vaccines

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 17 05:28 PM

The trial is looking for participants in barangays with an average daily attack rate (ADAR) of more than 1 percent with a population of about 5,000. Read more »

'Omicron very likely to replace delta as dominant variant in PH'

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 17 10:39 AM

The omicron variant is "very likely" to replace the delta variant as the dominant COVID-19 lineage in the Philippines, the World Health Organization said Friday. Read more »