"TEDROS GHEBREYESUS"

The World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, said there is a tendency for “mixing and matching” vaccine doses and warned that “it will be chaotic in countries if citizens start deciding when and who should be taking a second, third or a fourth dose." WHO

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said, “"We are in a very dangerous period of this pandemic,” and stressed that “no country on earth is out of the woods yet.” WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern about the COVID-19 Delta variant, “the most transmissible of the variants identified so far,” which “has been identified in at least 85 countries and is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations.” WHO

Informal meeting of the General Assembly to announce the launch of the "Joint Statement in support of the International Year of Health and Care Workers" , which is currently co-sponsored by 121 delegations.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the “two-track pandemic” is now taking its toll on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people and stressed that "vaccines donated next year will be far too late for those who are dying today, or being infected today, or at risk today.” WHO

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