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Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Transmitted by the blood-sucking triatomine bug called Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), Chagas disease, a neglected disease, currently affects between 6 and 7 million people worldwide and kills an estimated 10,000 people annually. UNITAID

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on countries to support the COVAX facility adding that bilateral arrangements to deliver COVID-19 vaccines “run the risk of fanning the flames of vaccine inequity” and stressed that “this is a time for partnership, not patronage.” WHO

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday that a critical shortage of vaccines has left some countries unable to start their COVID-19 inoculation campaigns. UNTV CH

In Colombia, vulnerable indigenous communities in the Amazon region are among the priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination. Near the city of Inírida, health teams set up a “pop-up” vaccination site in order to reach a large number of people quickly. WHO

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Global growth is getting an upgrade, but prospects for recovery are still highly uncertain due to the race between rolling out vaccines and mutations to COVID-19 the IMF says in its latest quarterly update to the World Economic Outlook report. IMF

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was “pleased that more leaders are now joining the call for a pandemic treaty, which would be a generational commitment to keeping the world safe.” WHO

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.