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WHO’s chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, "the ACT Accelerator was conceived with two aims: the rapid development of vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics; and equitable access to those tools. The first objective has been achieved,” however, “we have a long way to go on the second objective.” WHO

A consignment of 256,800 doses of the Astra Zeneca vaccine, from the Serum Institute of India, arrived in Syria through the COVAX facility. This first batch of the COVID-19 vaccines will be allocated to frontline health workers, including those in northeast Syria. UNICEF

Climate activist Greta Thunberg will donate 100,000 Euros (120,000 USD) via her foundation, to the WHO Foundation, in support of COVAX to purchase COVID-19 vaccines, as part of the global effort to ensure equitable access of vaccines to the most at-risk in all countries, including health workers, older people and those with underlying conditions. WHO

Addressing an ECOSOC Special Ministerial Meeting on a Vaccine for All, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said, “vaccine equity is the challenge of our time. And we are failing.” UNIFEED

WHO’s chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that in Papua New Guinea, there is large-scale community transmission in the capital Port Moresby and the Western Province, and all 22 provinces have now reported COVID-19 cases. WHO

WHO’s chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, "around the world, cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates," adding that “this is approaching the highest rate of infection that we have seen so far during the pandemic. Some countries that had previously avoided widespread transmission are now seeing steep increases in infections." WHO

The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines for the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) arrived on April 13. MINUSCA

“Kosovo remains under relentless pressure from the spread of the COVID-19 virus,” causing over 2,000 deaths in total, “one of the highest per capita” in the world, said the top UN official in Kosovo Zahir Tanin. UNIFEED

UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region said he is “particularly concerned about the level of violence which continues to affect the security of individuals, in particular that of women and young people,” in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. UNIFEED

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday that a critical shortage of vaccines has left some countries unable to start their COVID-19 inoculation campaigns. UNTV CH