Thread by @WHO

Live: @DrTedros addressing the @EU_Commission pledging conference on #COVID19 pscp.tv/w/cX66RTI2MTAy…

"Ten days ago, 🇪🇺 President @vonderleyen, 🇫🇷 President @EmmanuelMacron, @melindagates and I launched the ACT Accelerator, a call to action to work together in an unprecedented way to tackle this unprecedented crisis"-@DrTedros #COVID19 #UnitedAgainstCoronavirus

"The 🌍 is facing an unprecedented public health crisis.
But we are better positioned than any humans in history to confront it"-@DrTedros #COVID19 #UnitedAgainstCoronavirus

"Within 2 weeks of the first #COVID19 cases being reported to WHO, the 🌍 knew the genetic sequence of this virus.
The first diagnostics followed within days.
We already have early results from some trials of therapeutics.
And several vaccines are now in human trials"-@DrTedros

"The ACT Accelerator represents a unique commitment to work together at record speed to develop essential tools to prevent, detect and treat #COVID19"-@DrTedros #UnitedAgainstCoronavirus

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1253675702005760001?s=20

"But the ultimate measure of success will not be how fast we can develop tools – it will be how equally we can distribute them.

None of us can accept a world in which some people are protected while others remain exposed"-@DrTedros #COVID19 #UnitedAgainstCoronavirus

"This is an opportunity not only to defeat a common enemy, but to forge a common future; a future in which all people enjoy the right to the highest attainable standard of health – and the products that deliver that right"-@DrTedros #COVID19 #UnitedAgainstCoronavirus