GENEVA (Reuters) -Members of the World Health Organization reached a landmark agreement on Wednesday on how to learn from COVID-19, which killed millions of people in 2020-22, and prepare the world ...

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The old one failed to cope with Covid and may even have caused it.

Mr. Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the author of “The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease.” You may remember that a pandemic began ...

Members of the World Health Organization reached an agreement to prepare the world for future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations, the organization said early on Wednesday. The ...

India, April 16 -- After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from future pandemics, by forging a draft ...

After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from pandemics, by forging a draft agreement for consideration at ...

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