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The IMF announced that global growth is expected to slow from 3.4 percent in 2022 to 2.9 percent in 2023 in a press briefing held in Singapore to mark the launch of the January update of the World Economic Outlook report. IMF

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General said today that COVID-19 remains a global health emergency, even though, as the world enters the fourth year of the pandemic, “there is no doubt we are in a far better situation now than we were a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak.” WHO

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conducted a two-day official mission to Colombia from Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 January, at the invitation of the Government. OHCHR

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “Since the beginning of December, the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 has been increasing, adding that “the actual number of deaths is much higher.” WHO

Five billion people globally remain unprotected from harmful trans fat, a new status report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has found, increasing their risk of heart disease and death. WHO

Reported migrant expulsions from the US have left families with young children "distraught and disorientated" in overcrowded shelters in Mexico, the UN Refugee Agency said. UNTV CH

Close to 1 billion people in low- and lower-middle income countries - 1 in 8 of the world’s population –are served by health-care facilities that lack a reliable electricity supply, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll). WHO

WHO Director-General marked today the end of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, four months after the first cases were reported, saying the country “was able to use proven public health tools to contain the outbreak.” WHO

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

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive, real-time viral sequencing. WHO is concerned about the risk to life in China and has reiterated the importance of vaccination.” WHO