WHO said it counted 6,027 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox from 59 countries as of Monday, an increase of 2,614 cases.
The number of coronavirus deaths globally dropped by about 21% in the past week while cases rose in most parts of the world.
The World Health Organization says a record 9.5 million cases of COVID-19 were tallied around the world over the last week.
The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the coronavirus pandemic “is still accelerating” around the globe.
The World Health Organization said that it will temporarily drop hydroxychloroquine from its global study into experimental COVID-19 treatments, saying that its experts need to review all available evidence to date.
The head of the World Health Organization says he will begin an independent evaluation of the U.N. health agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic “at the earliest appropriate moment.”
U.S. researchers have given a healthy volunteer the first shot of an experimental coronavirus vaccine as anxiously awaited testing opens.