A full 99 percent of people on Earth breathe air containing too many pollutants, the World Health Organization says.

Blanket vaccine booster programs are likely to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic, as inequity in access to jabs could lead to more mutated variants that drag out the crisis, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns.

WHO urges countries to keep calm and take rational and risk-reduction measures in response to the new, fast-spreading COVID variant Omicron.

Europe has once again become the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a high jump in new deaths compared to the last week, according to the WHO.

“The first thing I want to say to the victims and survivors... I am sorry,” said Tedros Adhanom.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged world leaders to pause COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until at least the end of the year.

The number of COVID-19 cases in the world may exceed 300 million at the beginning of next year if the current rate of the spread of the infection is not stopped, the WHO says.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says vaccine inequality between rich and poor countries has created “a two-track pandemic.”

At least 115,000 health and care workers have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO chief says.

The World Health Organization warns that nationalism in the provision of vaccines will have adverse effects on the ongoing coronavirus crisis.