Moderna

A shareholder proposal calling on Moderna Inc. to study transferring production of COVID-19 vaccines to less-developed countries won 24 percent support from investors on April 28 after the company received a rare endorsement from the World Health Organization.

The head of the World Health Organization on April 26 urged countries to maintain surveillance of coronavirus infections, saying the world was “blind” to how the virus is spreading because of falling testing rates.

The head of the World Health Organization said on March 16 that a global rise in COVID-19 cases could be the tip of the iceberg as some countries also report a drop in testing rates.

Efforts to strengthen global health security will only succeed if the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) is enhanced, the agency’s head said on February 17, as its biggest donor, Washington, proposed a new global pandemic prevention fund.

BioNTech’s co-founder and top executive said the vaccine maker has no plans to enforce its intellectual property rights should organizations in Africa strike out on their own to produce unauthorized versions of the company’s shot.

The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on February 11 that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants.

Many countries have not reached their peak in cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus and measures imposed to curb its spread should be eased slowly, the World Health Organization’s technical lead on COVID-19 said on Feb. 1.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Jan. 24 that it was dangerous to assume the Omicron variant would herald the end of COVID-19’s acutest phase, exhorting nations to stay focused to beat the pandemic.

The chairman of the Gavi vaccine alliance, Jose Manuel Barroso, said on January 19 that an additional $5.2 billion is needed to continue to deliver vaccines at scale.

China must be more forthcoming with data and information related to the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on December 20.