Tag: Healthy News

That’s according to top experts from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), who outlined the implications of the new coronavirus pandemic during a digital briefing on Tuesday to correspondents in Geneva. “Digital new society already came into our life, but we never imagined that we could be forced to stay at home and to use the digital worlds to connect ourselves… Read More

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was updating journalists about the outcome of the funding conference for the recently launched ACT Accelerator to speed up production of treatments to beat the disease. “Recent advances in science are enabling the world to move at incredible speed to develop these tools. But the true measure of success will not only be how fast we can… Read More

António Guterres upheld the importance of impartial news media at a time when harmful health advice, hate speech and wild conspiracy theories are rising, and “blatant lies” are being spread online at a dizzying rate. “The antidote to this pandemic of misinformation is fact-based news and analysis. It depends on media freedom and independent reporting”, he said. The online dialogue… Read More

In a strongly-worded personal message, UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed donor countries’ contributions to a more than $8 billion fund, to speed up the production of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines to end the new coronavirus threat. But he said that five times that amount will likely be needed to put us all on “a path” to a world free of the disease.… Read More

Speaking to UN News, Amina Mohammed said that the global crisis unleashed by the virus could and should kickstart efforts to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, the 17 globally agreed targets to eradicate poverty, create a more equal and peaceful world and protect the planet. UN News: How concerned are you that global inequalities will deepen as a result of… Read More

The recommendation was among the outcomes of the latest meeting of the Emergency Committee on the new disease, established under global health regulations. “We accept the committee’s advice that WHO works to identify the animal source of the virus through international scientific and collaborative missions, in collaboration with the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization… Read More

Should the worldwide slump drag into the third quarter of 2020 or later, that number could soar to 1.124 billion to 1.54 billion travellers, as airlines slash the number of seats on offer by 49 to 72 per cent. Planes grounded; billions lost If that is the case, air carriers could find themselves grappling with $198 billion to $273 billion… Read More

I had a wonderful call with @CaptainTomMoore, who has raised over £31m for the UK National Health Service – and today celebrated his 100th birthday! Captain Tom is a symbol of solidarity in the face of #COVID19, and an inspiration to us all. Happy birthday Captain Tom! pic.twitter.com/r3YMj61QJo — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) April 30, 2020 “Our response to COVID-19 must… Read More

Governments, the private sector, the airline industry, and others have been approached to free up freight space at an affordable cost, “and to work with us to find ways around the transport disruptions we face”, said UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado. “Compounding the challenge is the exorbitant cost of securing flights, with freight rates at 100 to 200 per cent above… Read More

“We mourn the lives lost – more than 200,000”, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a virtual press conference on Thursday. “We despair that many more will follow, particularly in places least able to cope”.  He ran through the multiple ways the Organization is working to combat the virus on the ground, and said that on Friday, a new UN policy… Read More