WHO / HEALTH EMERGENCIES UPDATE
11-Jan-2023
00:06:20
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that WHO still believes that COVID-19 deaths are "heavily underreported from China," reiterating the need for "doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.” WHO
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STORY: WHO / HEALTH EMERGENCIES UPDATE
TRT: 6:20
SOURCE: WHO
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LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 JANUARY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
TRT: 6:20
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 JANUARY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
SHOTLIST
1.Wide shot, press briefing room
2.SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“Today marks the end of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, four months after the first cases were reported. I congratulate the government, the people of Uganda and health workers, some of whom lost their lives, for their leadership and dedication in bringing this outbreak to an end. We thank donors and partners for swiftly mobilizing resources, and vaccine developers for making candidate vaccines available in record time. Even in the absence of approved vaccines or therapeutics for this type of Ebola, Uganda was able to use proven public health tools to contain the outbreak.”
3.Wide shot, press briefing room
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“It’s now three years since the first sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was shared with the world. That sequence enabled the development of the first tests, and ultimately, vaccines. Throughout the pandemic testing and sequencing helped us to track the spread and development of new variants.”
5. Wide shot, press briefing room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“Sequencing remains vital to detect and track the emergence and spread of new variants, such as XBB.1.5. We urge all countries now experiencing intense transmission to increase sequencing, and to share those sequences. Investment in testing at-risk people to ensure they receive adequate care and in tracking the virus remains vital.”
7. Wide shot, press briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“During the last six months of last year, people aged 65 or over accounted for almost 90 percent of all reported deaths. But once again, the data we receive from countries is inadequate to give us a clear picture of who is dying, and why. Only 53 out of 194 countries provide data on deaths that are disaggregated by age and sex. As we enter the fourth year of this pandemic, we ask all countries to provide this data. The more data we have, the clearer a picture we have.”
9. Wide shot, press briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“WHO still believes that deaths are heavily underreported from China. And this is in relation to the definitions that are used, but also to the need for doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.”
11. Wide shot, press briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“However, having said that, and we do, as Maria said, want and are working ever closer with our colleagues in China to try and understand better the transmission dynamics. But we still do not have adequate information to make a full comprehensive risk assessment and therefore we will continue to try to encourage access to that data.”
13. Wide shot, press briefing room
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“China has done a lot in the last number of weeks, particularly to strengthen its own internal capacities to serve the clinical needs of its own population in terms of expanding hugely the number of designated hospitals, ICU beds, fever clinics, in adapting the clinical management pathways to include earlier diagnosis, the prioritisation for diagnosis for people with vulnerable underlying conditions, with older age, prioritising the use of antivirals early in the course of disease.”
15. Wide shot, press briefing room
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead Covid-19, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“Omicron, this variant of concern has been circulating for more than a year now. As we have mentioned there are many sub lineages that we are tracking. The assignment of the Greek letters was a way in which would help us to publicly communicate differences in viruses that are circulating, and assigning that name meaning that these viruses had different characteristics than the previous variants of concern.”
17. Wide shot, press briefing room
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead Covid-19, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“All of the sub variants of Omicron are behaving very similar to one and other in the sense of their transmissibility, their severity, their immune escape and the impact of our interventions, when that changes we will be using these Greek letters.”
19. Wide shot, press briefing room
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead Covid-19, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“In the community for the general public, WHO does recommend the wearing of masks when you’re indoors, in particular when there is crowding, when ventilation is poor or you don't know what the ventilation is. And that can include a variety of different types of settings like public transport, but it can also include buildings. We are in a room right now where we have very good ventilation, we are distanced apart, and so context is important.”
21. Wide shot, press briefing room
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“Since January of last year, 31 countries have reported outbreaks, 50 percent more than in the preceding years. The outbreaks themselves are both more widespread and deadly than normal. While we have had large cholera outbreaks before, we have not seen such a large number of simultaneous outbreaks. The common denomination for many of these outbreaks is climate-related events, such as storms, floods and droughts. Haiti, Malawi and Syria are among the worst affected countries.”
23. Wide shot, press briefing room
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“In the past few weeks, four more countries requested vaccines, which are extremely scarce. With increasing numbers of outbreaks that are larger geographically and in number, we call on countries that have experienced cholera outbreaks before to increase preparedness for potential outbreaks. We thank EuBiologics, based in the Republic of Korea, for maximizing production, and for its efforts to develop a new vaccine with the potential for larger production. We continue to call on other manufacturers to do the same.”
25. Wide shot, press briefing room
2.SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“Today marks the end of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, four months after the first cases were reported. I congratulate the government, the people of Uganda and health workers, some of whom lost their lives, for their leadership and dedication in bringing this outbreak to an end. We thank donors and partners for swiftly mobilizing resources, and vaccine developers for making candidate vaccines available in record time. Even in the absence of approved vaccines or therapeutics for this type of Ebola, Uganda was able to use proven public health tools to contain the outbreak.”
3.Wide shot, press briefing room
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“It’s now three years since the first sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was shared with the world. That sequence enabled the development of the first tests, and ultimately, vaccines. Throughout the pandemic testing and sequencing helped us to track the spread and development of new variants.”
5. Wide shot, press briefing room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“Sequencing remains vital to detect and track the emergence and spread of new variants, such as XBB.1.5. We urge all countries now experiencing intense transmission to increase sequencing, and to share those sequences. Investment in testing at-risk people to ensure they receive adequate care and in tracking the virus remains vital.”
7. Wide shot, press briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“During the last six months of last year, people aged 65 or over accounted for almost 90 percent of all reported deaths. But once again, the data we receive from countries is inadequate to give us a clear picture of who is dying, and why. Only 53 out of 194 countries provide data on deaths that are disaggregated by age and sex. As we enter the fourth year of this pandemic, we ask all countries to provide this data. The more data we have, the clearer a picture we have.”
9. Wide shot, press briefing room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“WHO still believes that deaths are heavily underreported from China. And this is in relation to the definitions that are used, but also to the need for doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.”
11. Wide shot, press briefing room
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“However, having said that, and we do, as Maria said, want and are working ever closer with our colleagues in China to try and understand better the transmission dynamics. But we still do not have adequate information to make a full comprehensive risk assessment and therefore we will continue to try to encourage access to that data.”
13. Wide shot, press briefing room
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“China has done a lot in the last number of weeks, particularly to strengthen its own internal capacities to serve the clinical needs of its own population in terms of expanding hugely the number of designated hospitals, ICU beds, fever clinics, in adapting the clinical management pathways to include earlier diagnosis, the prioritisation for diagnosis for people with vulnerable underlying conditions, with older age, prioritising the use of antivirals early in the course of disease.”
15. Wide shot, press briefing room
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead Covid-19, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“Omicron, this variant of concern has been circulating for more than a year now. As we have mentioned there are many sub lineages that we are tracking. The assignment of the Greek letters was a way in which would help us to publicly communicate differences in viruses that are circulating, and assigning that name meaning that these viruses had different characteristics than the previous variants of concern.”
17. Wide shot, press briefing room
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead Covid-19, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“All of the sub variants of Omicron are behaving very similar to one and other in the sense of their transmissibility, their severity, their immune escape and the impact of our interventions, when that changes we will be using these Greek letters.”
19. Wide shot, press briefing room
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead Covid-19, WHO Health Emergencies Programme:
“In the community for the general public, WHO does recommend the wearing of masks when you’re indoors, in particular when there is crowding, when ventilation is poor or you don't know what the ventilation is. And that can include a variety of different types of settings like public transport, but it can also include buildings. We are in a room right now where we have very good ventilation, we are distanced apart, and so context is important.”
21. Wide shot, press briefing room
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“Since January of last year, 31 countries have reported outbreaks, 50 percent more than in the preceding years. The outbreaks themselves are both more widespread and deadly than normal. While we have had large cholera outbreaks before, we have not seen such a large number of simultaneous outbreaks. The common denomination for many of these outbreaks is climate-related events, such as storms, floods and droughts. Haiti, Malawi and Syria are among the worst affected countries.”
23. Wide shot, press briefing room
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General:
“In the past few weeks, four more countries requested vaccines, which are extremely scarce. With increasing numbers of outbreaks that are larger geographically and in number, we call on countries that have experienced cholera outbreaks before to increase preparedness for potential outbreaks. We thank EuBiologics, based in the Republic of Korea, for maximizing production, and for its efforts to develop a new vaccine with the potential for larger production. We continue to call on other manufacturers to do the same.”
25. Wide shot, press briefing room
STORYLINE
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “today marks the end of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, four months after the first cases were reported.”
Speaking to reporters today (11 Jan) in Geneva, Tedros congratulated the government and the people of Uganda and “health workers, some of whom lost their lives, for their leadership and dedication in bringing this outbreak to an end.”
The WHO chief thanked donors and partners for “swiftly mobilizing resources, and vaccine developers for making candidate vaccines available in record time.”
He reiterated, “even in the absence of approved vaccines or therapeutics for this type of Ebola, Uganda was able to use proven public health tools to contain the outbreak.”
Tedros also said, “it’s now three years since the first sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was shared with the world. That sequence enabled the development of the first tests, and ultimately, vaccines. Throughout the pandemic testing and sequencing helped us to track the spread and development of new variants.”
He continued, “sequencing remains vital to detect and track the emergence and spread of new variants, such as XBB.1.5.”
The WHO Director-General urged “all countries now experiencing intense transmission to increase sequencing, and to share those sequences,” adding that “investment in testing at-risk people to ensure they receive adequate care and in tracking the virus remains vital.”
Tedros also said, “During the last six months of last year, people aged 65 or over accounted for almost 90 percent of all reported deaths. But once again, the data we receive from countries is inadequate to give us a clear picture of who is dying, and why.”
He continued, “Only 53 out of 194 countries provide data on deaths that are disaggregated by age and sex. As we enter the fourth year of this pandemic, we ask all countries to provide this data. The more data we have, the clearer a picture we have.”
WHO’s Dr Michael Ryan also spoke to reporters. He said,“WHO still believes that deaths are heavily underreported from China. And this is in relation to the definitions that are used, but also to the need for doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.”
He added that WHO wants and is working “ever closer with our colleagues in China to try and understand better the transmission dynamics. But we still do not have adequate information to make a full comprehensive risk assessment and therefore we will continue to try to encourage access to that data.”
Ryan said, “China has done a lot in the last number of weeks, particularly to strengthen its own internal capacities to serve the clinical needs of its own population in terms of expanding hugely the number of designated hospitals, ICU beds, fever clinics, in adapting the clinical management pathways to include earlier diagnosis, the prioritisation for diagnosis for people with vulnerable underlying conditions, with older age, prioritising the use of antivirals early in the course of disease.”
WHO’s Dr Maria Van Kerkhove told reporters, “Omicron, this variant of concern has been circulating for more than a year now. As we have mentioned there are many sub lineages that we are tracking.”
She continued, “The assignment of the Greek letters was a way in which would help us to publicly communicate differences in viruses that are circulating, and assigning that name meaning that these viruses had different characteristics than the previous variants of concern.”
Kerkhove also said, “All of the sub variants of Omicron are behaving very similar to one and other in the sense of their transmissibility, their severity, their immune escape and the impact of our interventions, when that changes we will be using these Greek letters.”
She said, “In the community for the general public, WHO does recommend the wearing of masks when you’re indoors, in particular when there is crowding, when ventilation is poor or you don't know what the ventilation is. And that can include a variety of different types of settings like public transport, but it can also include buildings. We are in a room right now where we have very good ventilation, we are distanced apart, and so context is important.”
On cholera, Tedros said, “Since January of last year, 31 countries have reported outbreaks, 50 percent more than in the preceding years. The outbreaks themselves are both more widespread and deadly than normal.”
He continued, “While we have had large cholera outbreaks before, we have not seen such a large number of simultaneous outbreaks. The common denomination for many of these outbreaks is climate-related events, such as storms, floods and droughts. Haiti, Malawi and Syria are among the worst affected countries.”
The WHO chief added, “In the past few weeks, four more countries requested vaccines, which are extremely scarce. With increasing numbers of outbreaks that are larger geographically and in number, we call on countries that have experienced cholera outbreaks before to increase preparedness for potential outbreaks. We thank EuBiologics, based in the Republic of Korea, for maximizing production, and for its efforts to develop a new vaccine with the potential for larger production. We continue to call on other manufacturers to do the same.”
Speaking to reporters today (11 Jan) in Geneva, Tedros congratulated the government and the people of Uganda and “health workers, some of whom lost their lives, for their leadership and dedication in bringing this outbreak to an end.”
The WHO chief thanked donors and partners for “swiftly mobilizing resources, and vaccine developers for making candidate vaccines available in record time.”
He reiterated, “even in the absence of approved vaccines or therapeutics for this type of Ebola, Uganda was able to use proven public health tools to contain the outbreak.”
Tedros also said, “it’s now three years since the first sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was shared with the world. That sequence enabled the development of the first tests, and ultimately, vaccines. Throughout the pandemic testing and sequencing helped us to track the spread and development of new variants.”
He continued, “sequencing remains vital to detect and track the emergence and spread of new variants, such as XBB.1.5.”
The WHO Director-General urged “all countries now experiencing intense transmission to increase sequencing, and to share those sequences,” adding that “investment in testing at-risk people to ensure they receive adequate care and in tracking the virus remains vital.”
Tedros also said, “During the last six months of last year, people aged 65 or over accounted for almost 90 percent of all reported deaths. But once again, the data we receive from countries is inadequate to give us a clear picture of who is dying, and why.”
He continued, “Only 53 out of 194 countries provide data on deaths that are disaggregated by age and sex. As we enter the fourth year of this pandemic, we ask all countries to provide this data. The more data we have, the clearer a picture we have.”
WHO’s Dr Michael Ryan also spoke to reporters. He said,“WHO still believes that deaths are heavily underreported from China. And this is in relation to the definitions that are used, but also to the need for doctors and those reporting to the public health system to be encouraged to report these cases and not discouraged.”
He added that WHO wants and is working “ever closer with our colleagues in China to try and understand better the transmission dynamics. But we still do not have adequate information to make a full comprehensive risk assessment and therefore we will continue to try to encourage access to that data.”
Ryan said, “China has done a lot in the last number of weeks, particularly to strengthen its own internal capacities to serve the clinical needs of its own population in terms of expanding hugely the number of designated hospitals, ICU beds, fever clinics, in adapting the clinical management pathways to include earlier diagnosis, the prioritisation for diagnosis for people with vulnerable underlying conditions, with older age, prioritising the use of antivirals early in the course of disease.”
WHO’s Dr Maria Van Kerkhove told reporters, “Omicron, this variant of concern has been circulating for more than a year now. As we have mentioned there are many sub lineages that we are tracking.”
She continued, “The assignment of the Greek letters was a way in which would help us to publicly communicate differences in viruses that are circulating, and assigning that name meaning that these viruses had different characteristics than the previous variants of concern.”
Kerkhove also said, “All of the sub variants of Omicron are behaving very similar to one and other in the sense of their transmissibility, their severity, their immune escape and the impact of our interventions, when that changes we will be using these Greek letters.”
She said, “In the community for the general public, WHO does recommend the wearing of masks when you’re indoors, in particular when there is crowding, when ventilation is poor or you don't know what the ventilation is. And that can include a variety of different types of settings like public transport, but it can also include buildings. We are in a room right now where we have very good ventilation, we are distanced apart, and so context is important.”
On cholera, Tedros said, “Since January of last year, 31 countries have reported outbreaks, 50 percent more than in the preceding years. The outbreaks themselves are both more widespread and deadly than normal.”
He continued, “While we have had large cholera outbreaks before, we have not seen such a large number of simultaneous outbreaks. The common denomination for many of these outbreaks is climate-related events, such as storms, floods and droughts. Haiti, Malawi and Syria are among the worst affected countries.”
The WHO chief added, “In the past few weeks, four more countries requested vaccines, which are extremely scarce. With increasing numbers of outbreaks that are larger geographically and in number, we call on countries that have experienced cholera outbreaks before to increase preparedness for potential outbreaks. We thank EuBiologics, based in the Republic of Korea, for maximizing production, and for its efforts to develop a new vaccine with the potential for larger production. We continue to call on other manufacturers to do the same.”
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