Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

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The guidance will assist healthcare professionals to identify those at high, moderate or low risk of hospitalization and to tailor treatment accordingly. WHO said current COVID-19 virus variants tend to cause less severe disease while immunity levels are higher due to vaccination, which has led to lower risks of severe…

Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

‘Nowhere and no one is safe’ in Gaza, WHO chief tells Security Council — Global Issues

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6:00 PM That’s it from this latest UN Security Council meeting on the Israel-Palestine crisis, where consensus among the body’s 15 members remains elusive. Here are the main highlights from today’s humanitarian briefings: HIGHLIGHTS Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization (WHO), called for a ceasefire to save…

70 UN Ambassadors in Geneva call for international action on Gaza — Global Issues

70 UN Ambassadors in Geneva call for international action on Gaza — Global Issues

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More than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in just one of month of conflict, they said, citing local health authorities. Children, women and the elderly account for 75 per cent of the victims, and upwards of 26,000 people have been injured. “Furthermore, according to multiple sources, the number of Palestinian…

Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

Silence the guns, UN relief chief tells Paris forum — Global Issues

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Echoing his remarks with French President Emmanuel Macron looking on, the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, stressed the “heart-breaking” plight of children in the territory, whom he saw last week “pleading for a piece of bread and a sip of water”. Mass displacement has…

Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

$20 million appeal to support Palestine labour market — Global Issues

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The funding appeal – launched on Thursday in Geneva – will be used to implement a three-phase programme to provide immediate relief and support longer-term job and business recovery, as well as social protection. “The hostilities have resulted in – and continue to cause – both a tragic loss of…

Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

‘Outrage’ over Black Sea attack, funding pledge to alleviate El Niño, breast cancer alert — Global Issues

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Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown said in a statement that Wednesday’s attack came on the heels of a series of assaults that killed and inured civilians, destroyed grain supplies and damaged the historic Fine Arts Museum in the Ukrainian port city. “I share my condolences with the family of the killed…

Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

At Rafah crossing, Türk says both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes — Global Issues

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Volker Türk highlighted the dichotomy at the border crossing, describing it as a “lifeline” for the 2.3 million residents of Gaza over the past month, although “unjustly, outrageously thin.” But it is also “the gates to a living nightmare”, he continued, as people in Gaza “have been suffocating, under persistent…

Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation — Global Issues

One in three nonmelanoma skin cancer deaths linked to working outdoors — Global Issues

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Nonmelanoma skin cancer refers to a group of cancers that develop in the upper layers of the skin. The two main subtypes of this cancer are basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. The research highlights the alarming burden caused by the disease through occupational exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation…