Three of the eight confirmed cases are receiving treatment even as 161 contacts are being monitored, according to WHO.
Scientists lean towards a natural spillover from animals, but China’s opacity means a lab leak can’t be ruled out.
Unanimous House vote sends bill to declassify US intelligence info about COVID origins to US President Joe Biden.
Essential Middle East discusses the rise of obesity in the region.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says ‘all hypotheses on the origins of the virus remain on the table’.
FBI Director Christopher Wray accuses China of thwarting efforts to identify the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Investigations into the origins of the virus have been hampered by politics and a lack of access and transparency.
UN health agency says one woman dies every two minutes during pregnancy or childbirth mostly from treatable conditions.
Disease surveillance by the WHO shows mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever are rising sharply.
The country officially declared its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease on Monday.
Nine deaths from the disease linked to a funeral ceremony in Equatorial Guinea’s Kie-Ntem province bordering Cameroon.
Cameroonian authorities said restrictions were imposed due to ‘high risk of importation’ of the unidentified illness.
World’s largest humanitarian network says strong preparedness systems ‘severely lacking’ despite three years of COVID.
Some 200 children have died of acute kidney injury in Indonesia and cases also reported in The Gambia and Uzbekistan.
