Reminder: Virtual Press Conference on global health issues, 29 March 2023 - 1500 CEST

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Wednesday, 29 March 2023

REMINDER MEDIA ADVISORY

Virtual Press Conference on COVID-19 and other global health issues

When: Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 15.00 CEST

Subject: COVID-19 and other global health issues

Guest speaker: Mr Tommaso Urbani, humanitarian and son of the late Dr Carlo Urbani

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Note to editors

Dr Urbani was an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, a highly transmissible, lethal and at the time unknown respiratory infection.

He successfully convinced the authorities in Viet Nam to adopt exceptional safety measures, including isolating suspected cases, use of protective measures by medical personnel and others, which with WHO coordination were extended to the region, thus slowing the pace of the epidemic in its earliest stage.

Dr Urbani died of SARS on 29 March 2003.

On 5 July 2003, WHO declared that SARS had been successfully contained.

See: WHO commemorates the 20th anniversary of the death of Dr Carlo Urbani

Note to 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.

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 can incorporate them into the Q&A session.

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

Media contacts:

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