"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

As the flu season in the northern hemisphere approaches, “many countries find themselves struggling to strike the right balance between protecting public health, protecting personal liberty and protecting their economies,” warned the WHO on Friday. WHO

Marking World Patient Safety Day, the World Health Organization released a ‘Health Worker Safety Charter’ calling on governments and healthcare leaders to take action to better protect health workers and patients. WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, “the decision to close schools should be a last resort, temporary and only at a local level” in areas with intense COVID-19 transmission. WHO

‘When the next pandemic comes, the world must be ready – more ready than it was this time," WHO’s chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said to reporters in Geneva on Monday adding “that means investing in population-based services for preventing, detecting and responding to disease.” WHO

"As societies open up, many are starting to see a resurgence of transmission,” the Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros said today, explaining that “much of this resurgence is occurring in clusters of cases related to gatherings of people, including at stadiums, nightclubs, places of worship and crowds.” WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic “has to be collective,” and “sharing finite supplies strategically and globally is actually in each countries’ national interest." WHO

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that the Access to COVID-19 Tools ACT-Accelerator, launched in April “has already shown results,” with nine vaccine candidates already in its portfolio going through Phase 2 or 3 trials.” WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said that this week the number of registered cases of COVID-19 will reach 20 million and 750,000 deaths, adding that leaders must step up to take action and citizens need to embrace new measures. WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said that the Americas “remain the current epicenter” of the COVID-19 and “have been particularly hit hard,” adding that “no single country can fight this virus alone. Its existence anywhere puts lives and livelihoods at risk everywhere." WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said that a number of COVID-19 vaccines are “now in phase three clinical trials and we all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection.” WHO