Conflicts, mass displacement, natural disasters, climate change have exacerbated disease's spread, says UN agency

Recent weeks mark steady decline in confirmed, suspected cases, with increased testing coverage a positive sign in fight against disease

PETALING JAYA, July 5 — The Asean-United Kingdom Health Security Partnership Programme (HSP) was launched yesterday, marking a five-year initiative aimed at strengthening Asean’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to health threats.

PARIS, May 24 — France has detected four cases of the new Covid-19 variant NB.1.8.1 for the first time.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 — Asean member states reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening global health security and regional resilience — guided by the principles of solidarity and equity, following the Covid-19 pandemic.

GENEVA, April 16 — World Health Organisation (WHO) members reached a landmark agreement today on how to learn from Covid-19, which killed millions of people between 2020 and 2022, and prepare the world for future pandemics.

GENEVA, April 8 — Another pandemic will occur sooner or later, and this is not a "theoretical risk" but an "epidemiological certainty," World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Monday.

NEW YORK, Jan 28 — The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday.

LONDON, Nov 14 — There are certain phrases that Wachuka Gichohi finds difficult to hear after enduring four years of living with long Covid, marked by debilitating fatigue, pain, panic attacks and other symptoms so severe she feared she would die overnight.

GENEVA, Nov 12 — Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will continue into next year and are expected to be completed by the next World Health Assembly in May, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

LONDON, June 2 — Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will be concluded by 2025 or earlier if possible, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

LONDON, May 11 — Talks to draw up a global pact to help fight future pandemics have ended without a draft agreement by the expected deadline, but progress has been made, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 — Malaysia’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have continued to recover in 2023 from the impact caused by the pandemic despite a challenging global economy, amid geopolitical tension and inflationary pressures.

SHANGHAI, Nov 6 — The Malaysia External Trade Development Corp (Matrade) aims to create more export opportunities in China by coordinating the participation of 10 local companies in various sectors at the sixth China International Import Expo (CIIE).

KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 — Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd’s (MAHB) network of airports recorded 9.92 million passenger movements in May 2023, up 37.7 per cent from the 7.2 million posted in the same month last year.

GENEVA, May 19 – Deaths from Covid-19 robbed people worldwide of an estimated 336.8 million years of life, according to new calculations from the World Health Organisation that attempt to demonstrate the true extent of the pandemic, reported German news agency (dpa).

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 — It has been three years since the Covid-19 pandemic swept the nation on January 25, 2020.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 — Adults with hypertension saw a small but consequential rise in their blood pressure levels during the first eight months of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study published on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — The number of unemployed graduates dropped to 4.1 per cent in 2021 while 33.9 per cent of graduates were in skills-related underemployment, according to data released by the Statistics Department (DOSM) today.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — The public is reminded not to be complacent and practise self-control even though the country is entering the transition to the endemic phase tomorrow.