Thread by @WHO

1 year ago today, @DrTedros declared that the outbreak of #COVID19 constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the highest level of alarm 🚨 under international law.

By that time, WHO was already working closely with countries, sharing life-saving information on how to prepare and protect their people against #COVID19.

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

Check out our interactive timeline to see WHO actions
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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.

Learn more:
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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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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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In 2020, WHO provided technical support, virtual training, equipment and supplies to boost #COVID19 testing capacity around the 🌎🌍🌏
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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.

As we enter the second year of the #COVID19 outbreak & pass 100 million cases, the focus must be on working together.

To end the pandemic we must achieve #VaccinEquity. Let’s share vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics fairly around the 🌎🌍🌏

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