Thread by @WHO

“#COVID19 has shown, when health is at risk, everything is at risk. The most severe health crisis in a century has taken 6 million lives and trillions of $ in severely disrupted trade, tourism, business, education, geopolitics and much more”-@DrTedros at the #G20 Leaders’ Summit

“We have come a very long way in our collective fight against #COVID19, but the pandemic is not yet behind us. WHO continues to urge all countries to remain vigilant”-@DrTedros #G20

“3️⃣ priorities for building a healthier safer, fairer and more prosperous world.

1️⃣ promote health.
 Healthy and productive populations are not created in hospitals or clinics, but in homes, streets, schools, workplaces, supermarkets and communities”-@DrTedros #G20

“We therefore urge all countries to make a paradigm shift towards promoting health & well-being and preventing disease by addressing its root causes – in the food people eat, the water they drink, the air they breathe, & the conditions in which they live & work”-@DrTedros #G20

“2️⃣ provide health.
 
That means reorienting health systems towards primary health care, which can deliver 90% of essential health services. And it means investing to create at least 10 million more jobs for health & care workers in low-& middle-income countries”-@DrTedros #G20

“ 3️⃣ protect health.
 
WHO has made 10 key proposals for an enhanced architecture for global health security, with stronger governance, stronger financing, stronger systems and tools, and a stronger WHO at its centre”-@DrTedros #G20

“The @g20org is playing an important role in driving forward several of these proposals. The new Pandemic Fund, launched on Sunday, is a good example. We appreciate the commitment of #G20 countries to ensure the fund is adequately capitalised with additional financing”-@DrTedros

“I would also like to ask 2️⃣ things:
1️⃣ your support for a #PandemicAccord
2️⃣ your support for IP waiver for diagnostics and therapeutic, not only for vaccines”-@DrTedros #G20