"PUBLIC HEALTH"

More than 700 health care workers and patients have died since December 2017 and more than 2,000 have been injured in attacks on health facilities, according to a three- year analysis by the UN World Health Organization (WHO), released today. UNTV CH

Informal meeting of the General Assembly to allow the Independent Panel for Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) to brief the membership on their findings and recommendations, as contained in their final report

In a statement issued today, UNICEF hails Bhutan’s successful completion of full COVID-19 vaccinations for 90 per cent of the eligible population. UNICEF

The General Assembly holds an Informal meeting of the plenary on the occasion of the Nelson Mandela International Day. General Assembly decides high-level meeting on improving global road safety will be held in New York, 2022.

The head of WHO’s Essential Programme on Immunization, Dr Ann Lindstrand, said the COVID-19 pandemic has “set us back a decade when it comes to the progress reached by childhood immunization.” WHO

Globally, poisoning is an under-recognized and under reported major public health concern. While the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all countries establish and strengthen poisons centres, fewer than half of WHO Member States have one. WHO

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

Viet Nam received over two million doses of the Moderna vaccine donated to the COVAX Facility by the United States Government on Saturday. UNICEF

More than 1.4 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine arrived today in Afghanistan. Donated by the United States to COVAX, the 1,484,900 doses were delivered through the COVAX Facility’s dose-sharing scheme to the Government of Afghanistan. UNICEF

With an escalating violent conflict, a COVID-19 pandemic that continues to spread and a natural disaster in a recently declared drought, the humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are unfolding in the context of one of the largest and longest-standing humanitarian emergencies, the World Health Organization said. UNTV CH