"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, "it’s encouraging to see health workers in lower-income countries starting to be vaccinated, but it’s regrettable that this comes almost three months after some of the wealthiest countries started their vaccination campaigns.” WHO

“Some high-income countries are entering contracts with vaccine manufacturers that undermine the deals that COVAX has in place and reduce the number of doses COVAX can buy,” WHO chief, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Monday in Geneva. WHO

The WHO mission in Wuhan, China, “achieved a better understanding of the early days of the pandemic and identified areas for further analysis and research," the agency’s chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus said at the press conference in Geneva on Friday.WHO

WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus expressed concern following an announcement by South Africa that it was putting a “temporary hold” on the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that “globally, the number of vaccinations has now overtaken the number of reported infections,” which he said was a remarkable achievement in such a short timeframe.” WHO

FIFA is teaming up with the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote the need for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics, and to encourage people to keep practicing life-saving, everyday public health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and to protect health.WHO

COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level, today announced the signing of an advance purchase agreement with Pfizer for up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine candidate, which has already received WHO emergency use listing. WHO

The WHO urged “countries that have contracted more vaccines than they will need” and those who control the global supply of the Covid-19 vaccines “to donate and release them to COVAX immediately, which is ready today to roll them out quickly. " WHO

“Vaccinating health workers and those at high risk of serious disease is the fastest way to stabilize health systems,” said the WHO’s Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus, as more than 30 countries have started vaccinating their high-risk populations with various COVID-19 vaccines. WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said reports of new variants of the COVID-19 virus in South Africa and the United Kingdom, are “natural and expected,” adding that “there is no evidence so far that it is more likely to cause severe disease or mortality.” WHO