by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 14, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Policy
An emergency committee met earlier on Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on whether the disease outbreak constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern,” or PHEIC.PHEIC status is WHO’s highest level...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 5, 2023 | International News, Pandemic
The WHO’s emergency committee first declared that COVID represented its highest level of alert more than three years ago, on Jan. 30 2020. The status helps focus international attention on a health threat, as well as bolstering collaboration on vaccines and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Aug 4, 2022 | Health, International News, Non-Life, Policy, Reinsurance
Cases have crossed 6,600 in the United States, as of Wednesday’s data Washington: U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration plans to declare the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency as soon as Thursday, the Washington Post reported, citing...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 28, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
The state of emergency amid concerns over the new Omicron coronavirus variant detected in southern Africa. The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and many European countries imposed new restrictions on foreign nationals travelling from countries in the region...
