MEDIA ADVISORY: ACT-Accelerator Anniversary Event, 23 April 2021 at 1500 CEST

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Thursday, 22 April 2021

MEDIA ADVISORY

Date and Time: Friday 23 April from 1500 to 16:30 CEST

Subject: Special press conference on One Year Anniversary of the Access to COVID-19 (ACT) Accelerator

Co-Founders of the ACT-Accelerator, Facilitation Council Co-Chairs and Principals from partner agencies will come together to reflect on progress, challenges ahead and the path forward in the fight against COVID-19.

In one year, the ACT-Accelerator has made significant strides in the development and equitable distribution of millions of diagnostic kits, vaccines doses and treatment. However, with a rapidly mutating virus, more must be done to bring about the end to the acute phase of the pandemic.

Following a message from WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, there will be pre-recorded and live speeches from ACT-Accelerator’s founders and supporters, including from:

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, in his capacity as the ACT-Accelerator’s Facilitation Council Co-Chair, will be speaking live on the challenges and needs for the ACT-Accelerator. Dag Inge Ulstein, Norway’s Minister for International Development, will speak on behalf of the Prime Minister of Norway and Facilitation Council Co-Chair, Ms Erna Solberg.

More detailed agenda and the link to ACT-Accelerator anniversary report will be sent tomorrow.

Join the WHO press conference:

By phone:

The event will also be live streamed from WHO’s COVID-19 Pandemic web page.

NOTES FOR JOURNALISTS:

Please ensure you enter your name and media outlet (use name/outlet). Kindly note, only questions from media (one per journalist) are allowed. When you sign in you will be automatically put in the meeting room.

You can submit questions in advance of this press conference by email to ACTaccelerator@who.int

WHO reserves the right to remove any participant whose behaviour causes any disruption. The event is also broadcast on WHO social media channels and you can follow it there.

To ask a question, please click "raise hand" and this will enter you into the queue for questions. (It can be found under the tab: participants.)

Please make sure you have a microphone connected or active on your computer. Do not ask questions via the chat as we cannot guarantee that we will incorporate them into the q&a session.

For translation during the VPC, choices are under "interpretation" or "language interpretation" depending on which version of Zoom you use.

Note that due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone.

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