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World Health Organization holds press conference on the coronavirus outbreak — 12/11/20
World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference on Friday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 69.7 million people across the world. The briefing comes as U.S. regulators say the authorization of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is imminent. On Thursday evening, a panel of advisors to the Food […]
World Health Organization holds a briefing on the coronavirus outbreak – 7/23/2020
The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Thursday on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 15.2 million people worldwide and killed at least 623,800, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The WHO on Monday applauded newly published data by researchers at Oxford University and AstraZeneca on a potential coronavirus vaccine […]
World Health Organization holds a news conference on the coronavirus pandemic – 5/1/2020
World Health Organization officials hold a press conference Thursday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 3.2 million and killed at least 233,704 so far. The World Health Organization is investigating whether the coronavirus causes some children to develop a rare inflammatory disease, WHO officials said Wednesday. » Subscribe […]
World Health Organization holds a briefing on the coronavirus as cases surge — 11/2/2020
The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Monday on the coronavirus as the pandemic in the United States and Europe accelerates. On Saturday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a second national lockdown in England as coronavirus cases surge there. Last week, the WHO that some countries may need to shut down their nonessential […]
WATCH LIVE: World Health Organization holds a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic – 10/26/2020
World Health Organization officials hold a press conference Monday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 43 million globally, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC » Subscribe to CNBC Classic: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCclassic Turn to CNBC TV for […]
World Health Organization holds briefing on the coronavirus outbreak — 10/23/2020
The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Monday on the coronavirus pandemic. The number of reported coronavirus cases around the world has hit 41.7 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Dozens of candidate vaccines are in clinical evaluation, according to the World Health Organization, with drugmakers and research centers scrambling […]
World Health Organization holds briefing on the coronavirus outbreak — 10/19/2020
The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Monday on the coronavirus pandemic. The number of reported coronavirus cases around the world has hit 40 million, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The grim milestone of 40,050,902 confirmed cases on Monday comes as various parts of Europe and the U.S. struggle to […]
World Health Organization holds a news conference on the coronavirus pandemic – 5/6/2020
The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Wednesday on the coronavirus, which has infected more than 3.6 million people worldwide and killed at least 257,818, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. On Monday, the World Health Organization said it will speak with the U.S. government and Gilead Sciences on how antiviral drug […]
World Health Organization officials answer questions about the coronavirus – 10/7/2020
World Health Organization officials are holding a question-and-answer session on Wednesday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak that has infected more than 35.8 million people across the globe. Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies program, and Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, are set […]
World Health Organization holds press briefing on the coronavirus outbreak — 10/9/2020
The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Friday on the coronavirus pandemic as daily cases hit a new record across the globe. The WHO reported 338,779 new global coronavirus cases on Thursday , a record one-day increase led by a surge of infections in Europe. More 36.5 million people worldwide have been infected by […]