"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said high-income countries have administered almost 44 percent of the world’s COVID-19 vaccine doses, while Low-income countries have administered just 0.4 percent and stressed that “inequitable vaccination is a threat to all nations, not just those with the fewest vaccines." WHO

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the World Health Assembly today (24 May), "Almost 18 months into the defining health crisis of our age, the world remains in a very dangerous situation,” and described the ongoing vaccine crisis as a “scandalous inequity.” WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged rich countries “to reconsider” vaccinating children and adolescents “and to instead donate vaccines to COVAX.” WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said COVID-19 cases and deaths have recently declined in most regions, “but it’s an unacceptably high plateau, with more than 5.4 million reported cases and almost 90 thousand deaths last week.” WHO

The US announcement to support a temporary waiver of intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines is “a significant statement of solidarity and support for vaccine equity,” WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Friday, urging other countries “to follow their example." WHO

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated all involved in bringing an end to the 12th Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and stressed the need for continued vigilance to prevent a return of the disease and in containing other health challenges. WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said he was encouraged by the demonstration of international support for India in the face of its “severe” COVID-19 crisis, but warned that other countries were also still experiencing “intense transmission” and Brazil is “one of the countries that has been hit hardest” by the pandemic. WHO

(Part 1) High-level Interactive Dialogue on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - General Assembly, 75th session.

World Health Programme (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the COVID-19 pandemic continues to intensify at a global level and noted that “there were almost as many cases globally last week as in the first five months of the pandemic." WHO

Climate activist Greta Thunberg will donate 100,000 Euros (120,000 USD) via her foundation, to the WHO Foundation, in support of COVAX to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, as part of the global effort to ensure equitable access of vaccines to the most at-risk in all countries, including health workers, older people and those with underlying conditions. WHO