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4 days ago · India is once again on high alert after a fresh outbreak of the Nipah virus (NiV) left a 14-year-old boy dead in the southern state of Kerala. Close contacts tested for the disease have come back ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Latest WHO Disease Outbreak News (DONs), providing information on confirmed acute public health events or potential events of concern.
Tools to explore COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 data with variant surveillance reports, data on cases and deaths, and a standardized, searchable research library.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most people infected with the virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require medical attention.
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic ), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other areas of Asia, and then worldwide in early 2020.
Information on COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus.
COVID-19 continues to demonstrate how quickly “an infectious disease can sweep across the world”, pushing health systems to the brink and upending daily life for all of humanity, the UN chief said...
Mar 17, 2021 · The outbreak of the virus has sickened more than 80 million people. At least 1.7 million people have died. Here’s how the year unfolded.
4 days ago · The World Health Organization is “extremely worried” about the possibility of an outbreak of the highly infectious polio virus in Gaza after traces were found in wastewater. Dr Ayadil ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Monday marks four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Since the first cases in Wuhan, China, in 2019, there have been millions of infections ...
