A global pandemic treaty aimed at preventing the chaos seen during the Covid-19 crisis has been drafted, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

The World Health Organisation has tested 15 countries on their response to a hypothetical new pandemic, simulating the deadly outbreak of a fictional disease. More than 350 health emergency experts ...

On March 20, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world's first pandemic agreement after three years of "intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating ...

In the early hours of Wednesday morning in Geneva, countries finalized a draft global agreement aimed at improving how the world prepares for and responds to pandemics, marking a historic step that ...

GENEVA — World Health Organization member countries on Tuesday approved an agreement to better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics in the wake of the devastation wrought by the ...

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NEW YORK, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of ...

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The pandemic gave researchers a rare opportunity to study human behavior. Their work offers lessons about loneliness, remote work, high heels and more. By Claire Cain Miller and Irineo Cabreros ...

BERLIN, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The Berlinale, one of the world's most open and public film festivals, begins on Monday in a decidedly low-key, private fashion, being streamed to a select audience of ...

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