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The IMF announced that the recently passed $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package would increase US GDP by five to six percent over three years. IMF

Measures taken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus have exacerbated human rights violations and socio-economic hardship, a UN-appointed independent rights expert told the Human rights Council. UNTV CH

“We have the tools to control the pandemic, but we can only do it if we use them consistently and equitably. Science, solutions and solidarity remain our guide. There are no short cuts," said WHO’s chief, Dr Tedros at the regular press briefing on Monday in Geneva. WHO

“Women must be at the centre of the recovery as we make the course corrections that the pandemic has highlighted so vividly,” the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a virtual event marking the International Women’s Day on Monday. UNIFEED

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, "it’s encouraging to see health workers in lower-income countries starting to be vaccinated, but it’s regrettable that this comes almost three months after some of the wealthiest countries started their vaccination campaigns.” WHO

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala took office as the seventh Director-General of the WTO on 1 March. She became the first woman and the first African to serve as Director-General. “We have a lot of work to do. So I feel ready to go”, she said as she entered the building. WTO

UN Secretary-General António Guterres received his second COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies in the Bronx, New York, on Friday. UNIFEED

In her global update to the Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet welcomed new measures in the United States “to tackle structural inequalities and systemic racism” and encouraged authorities to find alternative to “the massive detention of migrants.” OHCHR

“Some high-income countries are entering contracts with vaccine manufacturers that undermine the deals that COVAX has in place and reduce the number of doses COVAX can buy,” WHO chief, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Monday in Geneva. WHO

In their opening remarks to the 46th session of the Human Rights Council, the UN chief reiterated his call to the Myanmar military “to stop the repression immediately”, while the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the “medical impact of the pandemic is far from over and its effects on economies, freedoms, societies, and people have only just begun”. UNTV CH