The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that the planet can end the COVID-19 emergency this year, although the virus last week killed someone every 12 seconds. “We can end COVID-19 as a global health emergency and we can do it this year,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told ...
The UN children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned that more than one million children in Afghanistan are at the risk of severe acute malnutrition and death, calling for humanitarian aid to prevent the catastrophe. Pravaran Mahat, a communication specialist at UNICEF’s South Asia regional office, after his visit to the Indira ...