World Health Organization (WHO) on Twitter: "LIVE with @DrTedros at the @MunSecConf panel "Get well soon: finding a way out of the #COVID19 pandemic" #MSC2022 https://t.co/ICZPVrc88N" / Twitter

"I’m sure when we met two years ago, when we were all coming to grips with the spread of this new virus, that none of us would have imagined we would now be entering the third year of the pandemic. So when will it end? Is it ending now?"-

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"Indeed, high vaccine coverage in some countries, combined with the lower severity of Omicron, is driving a dangerous narrative that the pandemic is over. But it’s not – not when 70,000 people a week are dying from a preventable and treatable disease.."-

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"... Not when 83% of the population of Africa is yet to receive a single dose of vaccine; Not when health systems continue to strain and crack under the caseload"-

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"Indeed, high vaccine coverage in some countries, combined with the lower severity of Omicron, is driving a dangerous narrative that the pandemic is over. But it’s not – not when 70,000 people a week are dying from a preventable and treatable disease.."-@DrTedros #MSC2022

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"... Not when we have a highly transmissible virus circulating almost unchecked, with too little surveillance to track its evolution"-

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"In fact, the conditions are ideal for more transmissible, more dangerous variants to emerge. But we can end the #COVID19 pandemic as a global health emergency this year. We have the tools. We have the know-how"-

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"In particular, we are calling on all countries to fill the urgent financing gap of $16 billion for the

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"Compared with the costs of another year of economic turmoil, $16 billion is frankly peanuts"-

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"In particular, we are calling on all countries to fill the urgent financing gap of $16 billion for the @ACTAccelerator, to make vaccines, tests, treatments and personal protective equipment available everywhere"-@DrTedros #ACTogether #MSC2022

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"Ending this pandemic must remain our focus. At the same time, we must learn the lessons it is teaching us"-

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"1️⃣ We need stronger governance. Instead of the confusion and incoherence that has fueled this pandemic, we need cooperation and collaboration in the face of common threats"-

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"2️⃣ We need stronger systems and tools to prevent, detect, and respond rapidly to epidemics and pandemics"-

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"3️⃣We need stronger financing. It’s obvious that nationally and globally, we need substantial resources for strengthening global health security"-

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"Any efforts to strengthen the global health security architecture can only succeed if they also strengthen WHO’s role at its centre, rather than creating further mechanisms that would only create further fragmentation and potentially leave the world less safe"-

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"Let me return to the question I asked at the beginning. When will the #COVID19 pandemic end? It will end when we choose to end it. Because ultimately, it’s not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice"-

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