World Health Organisation

Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a speech to the World Health Assembly this evening after days of tensions with Australia. Follow our live coverage.

China will not invite international experts to investigate the source of Covid-19 until after securing the "final victory" over the virus, Beijing's UN ambassador in Geneva said Wednesday despite mounting calls for an independent probe into China’s handling of the outbreak.

China has attacked the US response to the coronavirus pandemic in a scathing video saying the country has ignored transparent warnings about the virus.

The coronavirus outbreak has infected some 2.5 million people and killed more than 166,000 but the World Health Organisation warns the worst is yet to come.

​​​​​​The Microsoft founder’s Instagram comments turned into a war zone after a seemingly innocuous post praising health care workers was hijacked.