1. @WHO DG @Drtedros says the world is in a perilous position re: #Covid19. The global toll has topped 4M, vaccine nationalism has left many countries with little access to vaccine. That health workers in many countries are still unvaccinated is "morally abhorrent."
2. "Now is the time for the world to come together ... to end the acute phase of this pandemic," @drtedros said during today's @WHO #Covid19 press conference. "It's not charity," he said of working out ways to share vaccines & therapies. "It's the best way to end the pandemic."
3. @WHO's expert panel on vaccines, SAGE, recommends that older people & health workers around the world be vaccinated before young children, because the risk to the former is so much greater, Anne Lindstrom (spg?) from WHO tells the daily newser.
4. It is a moment for extreme caution right now, @DrMikeRyan says. All regions of the world are reporting increasing cases in the past week. Making the assumption that cases won't increase when restrictions are eased because of vaccinations is a false assumption, Ryan said.
4. @DrMikeRyan says @WHO is urging countries to open up very carefully, not to lose the hard-won gains of #Covid19 restrictions.
5. Inequitable distribution of #Covid19 vaccines is helping to drive increases in cases, @mvankerkhove says. She urges the use of smart, agile strategies to drive down transmission of the virus.
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