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Serum Institute’s COVID-19 vaccine Covovax gets WHO approval for emergency use

OpIndia Staff - 17 December, 2021

Covovax, a vaccine developed by SII and US-based Novovax, became the 9th Covid-19 vaccine to be approved by the WHO

World

WHO names new Covid-19 variant ‘Omicron’: Here is why they skipped the Greek alphabets Nu and Xi, drawing international ire

OpIndia Staff - 27 November, 2021

While Covid 19 cases were declining a new variant labelled as 'Omicron' (B.1.1.529) has left health experts and markets worried

News Reports

Anthony Fauci had argued that ‘gain-of-function’ virus experiments were worth the risk of a pandemic: Report

OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2021

The National Institutes of Health, under which the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases functions, had reportedly funded coronavirus experiments in Wuhan, China, in the years leading up to the pandemic.

World

WHO chief Tedros, accused of covering up epidemic in Ethiopia, wants wealthy nations to halt inoculating the ‘healthy’, donate to poor nations

OpIndia Staff - 15 May, 2021

The WHO chief had come under severe criticism for their conduct since the pandemic broke out in China.

Government and Policy

‘UP going the last mile to stop COVID-19,’ WHO lauds Yogi Govt’s efforts to tackle spread: Here is what the UP Govt is doing...

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2021

Efforts of Yogi Govt to tackle the Coronavirus surge gets acclamation from the World health organisation (WHO).

News Reports

Scientists point out flaws in WHO investigation into Coronavirus origins, demand unrestricted and independent probe: Details

OpIndia Staff - 5 March, 2021

The letter emphasised that the joint team of WHO and Chinese experts lacked the required access, mandate and independence to come to a definitive conclusion about the origins of the Coronavirus.

News Reports

Chinese expert and WHO claim Chinese coronavirus did not originate in China

OpIndia Staff - 9 February, 2021

A fact-finding team of WHO and Chinese experts to determine the origins of the coronavirus said there was insufficient evidence to suggest COVID-19 was being spread in China's Wuhan before December 2019

OpIndia Explains

China claims it has nothing to hide on coronavirus but made two crucial virus databases inaccessible in Sept 2019. Here is what we know

Anurag - 9 February, 2021

Irrespective of the claims by China that is has nothing to hide, the dragon has been actively covering-up crucial information about origins of Covid-19

News Reports

WHO distorts Indian map, separates Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, from rest of the country

OpIndia Staff - 10 January, 2021

The two newly created Union Territories of India have been marked in grey colour, separate from India which appears in navy blue.

News Reports

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom, earlier accused of Coronavirus coverup, now faces allegations of genocide. Read details

OpIndia Staff - 15 December, 2020

Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Steinman has complained to ICJ in Hague against WHO chief Dr Tedros. He has accused him of aiding ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia when he was in the government.

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