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The World Health Organization says overuse of gloves and “moon suits” and the use of billions of masks and vaccination syringes to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus have spurred a huge glut of health care waste worldwide

Tens of thousands of tonnes of medical waste have been generated in the two years since COVID began spreading globally.

The head of the World Health Organization said there is an investigation underway into alleged reports the U.N. health agency’s top official in the Western Pacific engaged in racist, unethical and abusive behavior

Other lives: Unicef nutrition officer whose initiatives reduced infant mortality in Brazil

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without surveillance, it is hard to track the threat

Egypt has received four million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from the United Kingdom, as part of the global COVAX agreement, Egypt's Health Ministry revealed. The vaccines were sent to Cairo International Airport in three batches on Thursday and Friday. Acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar thanked the UK for supporting…

India is presently battling the third wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant

For many, the symptoms of Covid are still affecting their day-to-day lives more than a year after infection

Prof Ross Gordon backs Victorian and NSW premiers’ calls for a three-dose vaccine mandate to mitigate worst effects of Omicron