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MEDIA ADVISORY
World Health Day 2022 and COVID-19 update
in the Western Pacific Region
WHAT:
Media are invited to a virtual press conference at 9 am Manila time on Thursday 7 April 2022. The topics to be addressed are World Health Day, for which the 2022 theme is “Our planet, our health”, as well as an update on COVID-19 in the WHO Western Pacific Region*.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world how vulnerable lives and livelihoods are to global threats. Today, humanity is also facing the single biggest health threat —climate change. Each year, 3.5 million people in the WHO Western Pacific Region die from avoidable environmental causes, like air pollution, extreme weather events or waterborne diseases. Every 14 seconds a person dies from air pollution in the Western Pacific, and over 90% of people breathe unhealthy levels of outdoor air pollution, largely resulting from the burning of the same fossil fuels that are driving climate change.
In the midst of a global pandemic, a polluted planet, increasing rates of diseases like cancer, asthma and heart disease, on World Health Day this year, WHO will focus global attention on the urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and foster a movement to create societies focused on well-being.
WHO:
Panelists at the virtual press conference will include:
- Dr Takeshi KASAI, WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific
- Dr Babatunde OLOWOKURE, Director, Health Security and Emergency
WHEN:
Journalists should connect at 8:50 am Manila time, 10 minutes before the virtual press conference starts.
As time will be limited, journalists are highly encouraged to send questions for the panelists in advance to wprocom@who.int
HOW:
Note that no visitors are allowed on the WHO campus at this time. Participation in the press conference will be strictly virtual.
To join the virtual press conference:
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://who.zoom.us/j/98090810030
Password: WHD-2022
Telephone:
Webinar ID: 980 9081 0030
Password: 73098452
Dial:
Australia: +61 2 8015 6011 / +61 3 7018 2005 / +61 7 3185 3730 / +61 8 6119 3900 / +61 8 7150 1149
Japan: +81 3 4578 1488 / +81 363 628 317 / +81 524 564 439
Malaysia: +60 3 3099 2229 / +60 3 9212 1727
New Zealand: +64 4 886 0026 / +64 9 884 6780
Singapore: +65 3158 7288 / +65 3165 1065
Other international dial-in numbers: https://who.zoom.us/u/anrB8jttR
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CONTACT:
For more information, or to submit a question, please contact: wprocom@who.int | Mr Ruel Serrano +63 908 891 4532 | Ms Teena Nery +63 918 963 0224
* The WHO Western Pacific Region includes 37 countries and areas: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, France (which has responsibility for French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna), Hong Kong SAR (China), Japan, Kiribati, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Macao SAR (China), Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (which has responsibility for Pitcairn Islands), the United States of America (which has responsibility for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam), Vanuatu, and Viet Nam.
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