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 ...

Officials with the World Health Organization say it is never too late to turn the pandemic around and contain the virus. They're following the data from around the world and looking at countries ...

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.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- The world's largest randomized trial of COVID-19 treatments found "conclusive evidence" that remdesivir, a drug used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump when he fell ill, has ...

Humans are mortal—but they will also organize, strategize and fight to survive. Now, five years since the world was changed ...

JOHANNESBURG -- The coronavirus could "smolder" in Africa for years and take a high death toll across the continent, the World Health Organization has warned. The virus is spreading in Africa, but so ...

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 ...

A World Health Organization (WHO) scientific advisory group on Friday released a report on the origins of COVID-19, concluding that available evidence suggests the deadly pandemic was caused by ...

The organization has faced mounting criticism over its handling of COVID-19. The World Health Organization has faced mounting criticism in recent weeks over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

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 ...