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Healthcare services in the Palestinian territories have suffered greatly as a result of Israeli occupation and siege and insufficient funding.
The World Health Organization said understanding the virus' origins is a scientific imperative in order to help prevent any future outbreaks, whereas it was a moral imperative for the sake of those who lost their lives to Covid-19.
Cholera is already a high risk in Syria, with at least two deaths reported since the quake.
More than 1,000 health institutions in Syria were damaged by last week's earthquakes, the World Health Organisation's Eastern Mediterranean regional director has said.
China has played down the possibility of a big coronavirus wave over the next couple of months, saying most of its population has been infected,
A National Health Commission official said that China - where coronavirus cases have soared since Beijing abandoned its zero-Covid policy - had recorded 59,938 virus-related deaths between December 8 and January 12.
Dr Mark Asplund, a long-term volunteer with The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, performed damaged femoral artery surgery on a four-year-old Palestinian child in the occupied territories.
With a population of 99.4 million, the figures suggest about 88.5 million people in Henan province may now have been infected with Covid.
The new drug promises to slow down the progression of the disease and its impacts on the brain.
The WHO said it believes that the current numbers being published from China "under-represent" the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, and particularly in terms of deaths.