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Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
Please find enclosed the link of the WHO Director-General's statement as well as other materials from the COVID-19 media briefing on 6 April that ahead of World Health Day, 7 April, focused on WHO issuing five calls for urgent action to improve health for all people and featured:
Her Excellency Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, Barbados
His Excellency, President Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada, Costa Rica
His Excellency President Hage Geingob, Namibia
His Excellency President Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan (video statement)
- Tomorrow is World Health Day. COVID-19 has exacerbated inequalities both between and within countries. The poorest and most marginalized have been hit hardest - both in terms of lives and livelihoods lost.
- At the start of the year, I made a call for every country to start vaccinating health workers and older people in the first 100 days of 2021. This week will mark the hundredth day and 190 countries and economies have now started vaccination. It’s a travesty that in some countries health workers and those at-risk groups remain completely unvaccinated.
- Today, I’m happy to welcome four heads of state to talk about health equity, and changes they have made to achieve it.
- Tomorrow we will publish an additional shortlist of films for the Health for All Film Festival. This fourth shortlist is dedicated to Health Equity.
Media briefing audio file (length 1hr 27mins):
https://terrance.who.int/mediacentre/presser/WHO-AUDIO_Emergencies_Coronavirus_Press_Conference_06APR2021.mp3
Video news edit (03mins30):
Link: https://who.canto.global/b/LEUPA
Media assets and information on COVID-19
https://who.canto.global/v/coronavirus
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