(NEXSTAR) – On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization told the world that COVID-19 “can be characterized as a pandemic.” At the time, fewer than 4,500 people were ...

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization has announced an official name of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people and spread to two dozen other countries: COVID-19. "Under agreed ...

Officials at the World Health Organization said Monday that of about 80,000 people who have been sickened by COVID-19 in China, more than 70% have recovered and been discharged from hospitals.

Fresh off his election as World Health Organization director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made his first overseas trip in August 2017. His pick to begin a five-year “world” reign: China. There, ...

Editor’s Note (3/11/24): Today is the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of the COVID pandemic. In this Q&A, Scientific American’s senior news reporter Meghan Bartels ...

The World Health Organization is trying to keep President Donald Trump from withdrawing U.S. support, in the process proving that it has learned nothing from the COVID-19 pandemic, which it allowed to ...

GENEVA -- The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a news briefing in Geneva ...

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Thursday and Friday marked the deadliest 48 hours in the United States' fight against COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization. A total of 4,978 people died, according to the WHO's ...

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. (WHO photo) The World Health Organization declared ...