Examining the evidence gathered from South Africa, the World Health Organisation believes that the Omicron variant is mild, and has called on governments around the world to end the hysteria.
The WHO is embroiled in a new scandal: at least a third of its team investigating the origins of COVID-19, appointed last week, have conflicts of interest due to research links or previous statements about the disease.
The World Health Organisation and Unicef have said schools in Europe must do everything possible to remain open, in spite of the Delta variant being dominant in the region.
Mask-wearing and social distancing should stay in place because it is "inevitable" that new Covid variants will be able to "break through the vaccine-related protection in a few people", says WHO official David Nabarro.
G7 leaders discussed the origins of Covid on Saturday as the Chief of the WHO said that all hypotheses – including the lab leak theory – remain “open”.
Last year, many journalists dismissed the Covid lab-leak theory as conspiratorial nonsense. But if we are to avoid another pandemic, we must take the theory more seriously and ensure it is investigated, says Matt Ridley.
Scientists from around the world have criticised the World Health Organisation's investigation into the origins of Covid, saying that the agency has not properly looked into the lab leak theory.
The World Health Organisation has criticised Europe's Covid vaccine rollout as being "unacceptably slow". Only 16% of its population has received the jab, compared with 52% in the UK.
No sooner had the WHO yesterday published its report into the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Director General was making a statement distancing the organisation from what observers called a "whitewash".
Europe shared in the worldwide fall-off in coronavirus infections in January but, unlike in the UK, that trend has reversed in the past few weeks, especially in the east. What's going on?
