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The global health agency, WHO with a group of health leaders urged for a global cooperation to accomplish the ascertained goals of COVID-pandemic related health emergency and for an equitable distribution of vaccines to the deprived or lower/middle income nations and Africa. An extensive call was made under the leadership of WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus joined by Dr Seth Berkley, CEO Gavi, Strive Masiyima, AU Special Envoy for COVID- 19, Dr John Nkengasong, Africa CDC Director, Professor Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Afreximbank, Dr Vera Songwe, UN Under- Secretary- General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission For Africa and Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa during a media briefing at WHO’s headquarter in Geneva on 14 th September 2021. Taking a dig at the current health emergency, Dr. Tedros stated, “More than 5.7 billion doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of those have been...

The World Health Organisation in collaboration with the German government launched a hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin to provide the world with better data, analytics and decisions to detect and respond to health emergencies. H.E German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus inaugurated the hub in the presence of other German Federal ministers- HE German Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn, Governing Mayor of Berlin H.E. Michael Müller, and other dignitaries such as Dr. Michael J. Ryan, Executive Director WHO Health Emergencies Programme, Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General; Katalin Karikó, BioNTech Senior Vice President, Sabine Gabrysch, Professor for Climate Change and Health, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General, Centre for Disease Control, Nigeria. The 1 st of September 2021 marked itself as one of the most quin...