🆕 WHO guidance for national surveillance of #COVID19 virus variants 👉bit.ly/3lOLHzP

Standardizing the monitoring & reporting of the variants will give us a better understanding of the virus at a global scale.
To help countries detect & report new #COVID19 virus variants, the 🆕 guidance includes

✅ recommended disease surveillance activities
✅ how to report data
✅ studies to understand the variants’ impact

More in detail 👉bit.ly/3lOLHzP
The #COVID19 Delta variant of concern is the most transmissible variant so far.

Here is what we know about it ⬇
Listen to Dr @mvankerkhove share how we can keep ourselves safe from the #COVID19 Delta variant ⬇
To control the spread of the #COVID19 Delta variant, we need:

🔸better surveillance
🔸more strategic testing
🔸stronger contact tracing
🔸 early clinical care
🔸well-trained & well-protected 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️
🔸more R&D
🔸more vaccines

Do the current batch of approved #COVID19 vaccines protect us from the Delta variant❓ 
 
WHO’s Chief Scientist Dr @doctorsoumya explains in #ScienceIn5 ⬇️

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11 Aug
WHO’s #COVID19 Solidarity clinical trial enters a new phase - Solidarity PLUS - with three new candidate drugs:
-artesunate
-imatinib
-infliximab

👉 bit.ly/37wB6RF
These therapies - artesunate, imatinib and infliximab – were selected by an independent expert panel for their potential in reducing the risk of death in hospitalized #COVID19 patients. bit.ly/37wB6RF
These drugs are already used for other indications:
- artesunate is used for severe malaria
- imatinib for certain cancers
- infliximab for diseases of the immune system such as Crohn’s Disease and rheumatoid arthritis
bit.ly/37wB6RF #COVID19

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11 Aug
@DrTedros "Last Friday, the Ministry of Health of #Guinea informed WHO of a case of #Marburg virus disease in the country’s south-west, in a man who died 8 days after onset of symptoms. This is the first known case of Marburg in West Africa"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "WHO and our partners are supporting #Guinea’s Ministry of Health to investigate the source of the #Marburg outbreak, trace contacts, and inform the local community about how to protect themselves"-@DrTedros
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9 Aug
🥵 Heat waves
🌊 floods
🍂 droughts
 
are taking thousands of lives, forcing displacement, and exacerbating food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition.
 
#ClimateCrisis is the single biggest health threat facing humanity.
#ClimateChange puts the 🌏🌍🌎 at risk from
 
🔸air pollution
🔸disease
🔸extreme weather
🔸forced displacement
🔸food insecurity
🔸pressures on mental health
 
Around 1⃣3⃣ million people die each year due to environmental factors.
This is how #ClimateChange hurts your health ⬇️
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5 Aug
No one should be harmed in health care.
Yet, every minute, 5 patients die because of unsafe care.

The 🆕 Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 provides strategic direction for eliminating avoidable harm in health care & improving #PatientSafety

👉 bit.ly/3jnacRV Image
Major challenges for #PatientSafety:
💊 Medication errors
🏥 Health care-associated infections
🩹 Unsafe surgical care procedures
💉 Unsafe injection practices
🧪 Diagnostic errors
🆎 Unsafe transfusion practices
☢️ Radiation errors
🧫 Sepsis

👉 bit.ly/3jnacRV Image
Implementing the 🆕 Global #PatientSafety Action Plan 2021-2030 will help prevent & reduce risks, errors & harm that occur to patients when they receive health care.

Every patient should receive:
✅ safe & respectful care
✅ every time
✅ everywhere

👉 bit.ly/3jnacRV Image
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4 Aug
@DrTedros "In January of this year, a midwife from #Uganda called Harriet Nayiga joined our press conference to talk about her experience as a health worker during the #COVID19 pandemic"-@DrTedros

@DrTedros "While vaccines were being rolled out in the wealthiest countries, Harriet was one of many #healthworkers in Africa and around the 🌍 who was still waiting for her turn to be vaccinated. At the time, #Uganda – like much of Africa – had relatively few cases of #COVID19"-@DrTedros
Read 22 tweets
3 Aug
During #COVID19, more than ever, 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ must be protected & respected, & hospitals & health facilities & transportation, incl. 🚑 should not be used for military purposes – essential conditions for the continued delivery of critical health services.

👉 bit.ly/3rRu0AT
🆕 data from the Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care shows that, since 2017 over:
💥 2700 incidents in 17 countries & territories have been recorded
💥 700 health care workers & patients have died, & over 2000 have been injured

#NotATarget

👉bit.ly/3rRu0AT
Hundreds of health facilities have been destroyed or closed, health workers killed and injured, and millions of people denied the healthcare they deserve.

#NotATarget

👉 bit.ly/3rRu0AT
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