|  | | | | | | | | The meeting is seen as a once-in-a-generation chance for the health agency to strengthen its role after some 15 million deaths during the COVID pandemic. | | | | | | Mexico on Saturday reported the first confirmed case of monkeypox in the country, according to deputy health secretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell. | | | | | | The Chinese metropolis of Shanghai inched further towards a gradual reopening from two months of grinding COVID-19 lockdown, while officials in Beijing prepared to ease curbs in parts of the capital, saying on Saturday its outbreak was under control. | | | | | | Ireland has confirmed its first case of monkeypox, the country's health agency said on Saturday. | | | | | | Governments and the WHO should not repeat the early missteps of the COVID pandemic, which delayed the detection of cases, they said. | | | | | | Use of Pfizer Inc's COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid spiked this week, but some doctors are reconsidering the pills for lower-risk patients after a U.S. public health agency warned that symptoms can recur after people complete a course of the drug, and that they should then isolate a second time. | | | | | | Beijing will ease curbs in some low-risk areas of the Chinese capital on Sunday to allow a return to normal life, city officials said on Saturday. | | | | | | Mainland China reported 362 new coronavirus cases on May 27, of which 96 were symptomatic and 266 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Saturday. | | | | | | China's capital Beijing reported 18 new symptomatic coronavirus cases for May 27, down from 22 a day earlier, the city government said on Saturday. | | | | | | Shanghai took more gradual steps on Friday towards lifting its COVID-19 lockdown, while Beijing was investigating cases where its strict curbs were affecting other medical treatments as China soldiered on with its uneven exit from restrictions. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sponsors are not involved in the creation of these or any other Reuters news articles.
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