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Follow along as we look back on WHO’s #COVID19 response in 2020👉bit.ly/3nMnA2S

Ending the most serious health threat in 100 years requires:

🧪 Science
💡 Solutions
🌐 Solidarity

In response to #COVID19, WHO has worked hand-in-hand with countries through

🗺️ the Strategic Preparedness & Response Plan
🌐 direct collaboration with our 150 country offices & 6 regional offices
🧰 the deployment of Emergency Medical Teams

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Less than 2 weeks after the first alerts about #COVID19, WHO published a set of advice to countries. We then shipped test kits to labs around the 🌏🌍🌎.

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On 30 January 2020, WHO Director-General @DrTedros declared the #COVID19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), calling on all countries to immediately take action.

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Throughout 2020, WHO sent lifesaving supplies & equipment & reached billions of people around the 🌎🌍🌏 with vital information about how to protect themselves from #COVID19.

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Protecting #HealthWorkers is one of our top priorities.

WHO established the #COVID19 Supply Chain System to address shortages, ensure quality & help countries get vital safety equipment.

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Despite travel restrictions & reduced flights, our logistics teams worked around the clock with @WFP and other partners to get supplies to those who needed them most.
 
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Medical oxygen saves #COVID19 patients’ lives.
 
By December 2020, WHO had sent more than 16 500 oxygen concentrators and 40 000 pulse oximeters & oxygen monitors to 121 countries.
 
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Through #OpenWHO, millions of people took free online courses to learn more about safely responding to #COVID19
 
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To provide life-saving information to the widest audience possible, WHO has
 
📡 organized over 130 media briefings
📡 run 50+ #AskWHO sessions on social media
📡 worked closely w/ leading tech companies
📡 launched a new #Sciencein5 video series
 
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In 2020, WHO provided technical support, virtual training, equipment and supplies to boost #COVID19 testing capacity around 🌏🌍🌎.
 
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Throughout the #COVID19 pandemic, WHO has worked with countries to keep essential health services running 🏥, maintain routine childhood immunization 👦👧 and support childbirth care 🤰.
 
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WHO and partners have worked with scientists, donors and manufacturers from across the globe to speed the development of vaccines against #COVID19.
 
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