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Monday, 3 May, 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 3 May that featured special guest:
Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (link to his statement farther below)
- Earlier today, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced the end of the most recent Ebola outbreak, three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu.
- More cases of COVID-19 have been reported globally in the past two weeks than during the first six months of the pandemic. India and Brazil account for more than half of last week’s cases.
- Sweden will donate 1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to COVAX, which follows similar donations by France, New Zealand and Norway, with positive signs from some other countries.
- The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator currently faces a funding gap of 19 billion US dollars, and we estimate that we will need a further 35 to 45 billion dollars next year to vaccinate most adults around the world. The G7 countries could mobilize a substantial portion of these funds themselves, and lead a global effort to accelerate vaccination around the world.
Media briefing audio file (length 1hr):
https://terrance.who.int/mediacentre/presser/WHO-AUDIO_Emergencies_Coronavirus_Press_Conference_03MAY2021.mp3
Full video file (length 1hr):
https://who.canto.global/b/OI3AJ
Video news edit (5mins 06sec)
https://who.canto.global/b/QSHHI
Media assets and information on COVID-19
https://who.canto.global/v/coronavirus
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