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Japan Times
WORLD
May 30, 2023
Critics say pandemic treaty text is 'step backward'
Changes to the preliminary negotiating text are seen as weakening language on preventing the rampant inequality seen in access to vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 24, 2023
World Health Organization working towards 'pandemic treaty' by May 2024
A new pact is a priority for agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has called it a 'generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect.'
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 12, 2023
Mpox no longer a global health emergency, WHO chief says
A cousin of the smallpox virus, mpox has mostly been confined to developing countries for years, but spread across Europe and the U.S. last year.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 5, 2023
COVID-19 is no longer global health emergency, WHO says
The WHO's emergency committee first declared that COVID represented its highest level of alert more than three years ago, on Jan. 30 2020.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 5, 2023
WHO weighs whether to lift COVID-19 emergency status
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus listed a slew of concerns, including the fact that efforts to track how the virus spreads and mutates have 'declined significantly.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 9, 2023
China rejects WHO accusations of hiding Wuhan COVID-19 data
The rebukes came after overseas researchers discovered sequences that had not been previously shared.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 7, 2023
'We need to know': WHO says China has more data on COVID-19 origin
More than three years after COVID-19 first surfaced, heated debate still rages around the origins of the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 4, 2023
Infertility affects 1 in 6 worldwide, WHO estimates
The global health body found little variation between regions and wealthy and poorer countries.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 29, 2023
Mpox cases slowly creeping up in Japan even as spread slows abroad
As of Tuesday, Japan had reported 80 cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, with the country seeing a gradual increase in new cases this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 29, 2023
WHO says medium-risk adults don't need extra COVID shots
Although there is no risk in getting a booster shot, the benefits of an extra dose in regular, medium-risk adults was marginal, experts said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Mar 19, 2023
WHO and advisers urge China to release all COVID-related data
New data suggests that raccoon dogs were present in the market and may have been infected, providing clues in the chain of transmission that reached humans.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 18, 2023
WHO accuses China of withholding data on pandemic’s origins
Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the coronavirus may have sprung from a seafood market in Wuhan. Now the data are missing from a scientific database.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 15, 2023
Exodus of health care workers from poor countries worsening, WHO says
The trend for nurses and other staff to leave parts of Africa or Southeast Asia for wealthier countries in the Middle East or Europe has accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2023
Japanese head of WHO regional office fired for misconduct
Takeshi Kasai had been suspended as regional director for the Western Pacific since August after allegations of racist and abusive behavior toward staff members.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 25, 2023
WHO raises concern after father of girl who died from bird flu tests positive
One of the worst global avian influenza outbreaks on record has seen tens of millions of poultry culled, mass wild bird die-offs and a rising number of infections among mammals.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Feb 6, 2023
Gaming disorder among youths surging amid smartphone use and pandemic
“Patients are having difficulties in their lives and are feeling lonely, and they turn to games to relieve such feelings,” said the director of a psychiatric hospital.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 12, 2023
Uganda and WHO declare end to Ebola outbreak after new cases abate
Widespread testing hasn't detected new cases in more than 42 days, an indication that the virus is no longer spreading.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 11, 2023
WHO urges travelers to wear masks as new COVID variant spreads
XBB.1.5 — the most transmissible omicron subvariant detected so far — accounted for 27.6% of COVID-19 cases in the United States for the week that ended Jan. 7.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 15, 2022
WHO hopeful COVID-19 emergency will end in 2023
As the third anniversary of the original outbreak rolls around, the WHO said the virus was here to stay but would need managing alongside other respiratory illnesses.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 3, 2022
WHO warns drop in COVID-19 alertness could create deadly new variant
Lapses in strategies to tackle COVID-19 this year continue to create the perfect conditions for a deadly new variant to emerge, as parts of China witness a rise in infections.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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