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WHO chief Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said the pandemic “is a powerful demonstration of just how much we rely on health workers, and how vulnerable we all are when the people who protect our health are themselves unprotected,” after a paper issued by the Organization estimated that some “115,000 health workers may have died from COVID-19 between January 2020 and May this year.” WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the proposed members of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens, or SAGO. The group will advise WHO on the development of a global framework to define and guide studies into the origins of emerging and re-emerging pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential, including SARS-CoV-2. WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) Special Report on Climate Change and Health, launched today, in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, spells out the global health community’s prescription for climate action based on a growing body of research that establishes the many and inseparable links between climate and health. WHO

The first official clinical definition of ‘post COVID’ condition has been agreed upon after global consultation and released to help boost treatment for sufferers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. UNTV CH

Speaking at the launch of the World Health Organization’ (WHO) Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022, Secretary-General António Guterres said, "not to have equitable distribution of vaccines is not only a question of being immoral, it is also a question of being stupid." WHO

UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi called for greater international cooperation to solve multiple crises at the opening of the 72nd session of the Executive Committee. UNHCR

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said, "Regional integration should be part of the ecosystem of trade in the world, not for more protectionism, but for a more intelligent integration and more resilient integration of the developing world in the global economy." UNIFEED

Following the announcement of the creation of a new Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection for a Just Transition, which aims to create at least 400 million jobs by 2030, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena said, “there is growing inequalities and asymmetries between the developed and developing countries in terms of vaccines, of wealth, of financing, and we are confronting a divergent recovery” from the COVID 19 pandemic. UNIFEED

The WTO Public Forum, the largest yearly outreach event by the World Trade Organization, came back for its 20th edition after being cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. WTO

Secretary-General António Guterres said, “uneven, unfair recovery” from the COVID-19 pandemic “is eroding trust between the developed and developing world,” and stressed that many developing countries “urgently need a helping hand.” UNIFEED