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China.org.cn: Second phase of COVID-19 origin tracing: Stop politicizing science

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Wednesday, July 28, 2021

BEIJING, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn on the second phase of COVID-19 origin tracing:

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  • BEIJING, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn on the second phase of COVID-19 origin tracing:
    Second phase of COVID-19 origin tracing: Stop politicizing science
    On July 15, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus repeated that it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak.
  • Actually, the March study report was compiled by experts from various countries and international organizations, covering epidemiology, zoology and other fields.
  • All the plans, visits, analyses and presentations during the first phase of virus origin tracing were made and carried out together by experts of the joint team.
  • So how can one guarantee that the second phase of origin tracing does not become a repeat of the "washing powder incident" when politics interferes with science?

AHF: Six Reasons Why WHO Chief Should Go

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

The appointment of the next WHO Director-General is slated for May 2022 after the current WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, completes his first term by the end of 2021.

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  • The appointment of the next WHO Director-General is slated for May 2022 after the current WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, completes his first term by the end of 2021.
  • Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary leadership, which is why we need a new candidate to head up the WHO.
  • The following six reasons underscore why WHO needs a new Director-General:
    1. WHO delayed declaring COVID-19 a pandemic.
  • Member States can submit the names of possible candidates to the WHO Executive Board until mid-September 2021 .

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), to be Special Guest Speaker at Everbridge COVID-19: Road to Recovery (R2R) Executive Summit, May 26-27, 2021

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Monday, May 24, 2021

Elected WHO Director-General for a five-year term, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus represents the first person from the WHO African Region to head the worlds leading public health agency.

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  • Elected WHO Director-General for a five-year term, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus represents the first person from the WHO African Region to head the worlds leading public health agency.
  • Dr. Tedros is an Ethiopian biologist, public health researcher, and official who has served since 2017.
  • We welcome Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, to the Everbridge COVID-19: Road to Recovery Spring 2021 symposium, said David Meredith, Chief Executive Officer, Everbridge.
  • To register for the Everbridge Spring 2021 COVID-19 R2R: The Road to Recovery Symposium, click here .

DGAP-News: The UBA Africa Conversations 2021: Join Africa's Global Leaders

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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

b"The UBA Africa Conversations 2021: Join Africa's Global Leaders\nThe issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.\nThe UBA Africa Conversations 2021: Join Africa's Global Leaders - President Kagame of Rwanda, WTO's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, UBA's Tony O. Elumelu, WHO's Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, IFC's Makhtar Sop Diop, to Celebrate Africa Day at the UBA Africa Conversations 2021\nLAGOS, Nigeria, May 18, 2021/ -- The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc ( www.UBAgroup.com ), is set to celebrate this year's Africa Day in commemoration of African unity with the third edition of its annual UBA Africa Conversations, headlined by Africa's international leaders that include the President of Rwanda, H.E Mr Paul Kagame; Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation(WTO); Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation(WHO) and Mr. Makhtar Sop Diop, Managing Director, International Finance Corporation(IFC).

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  • b"The UBA Africa Conversations 2021: Join Africa's Global Leaders\nThe issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.\nThe UBA Africa Conversations 2021: Join Africa's Global Leaders - President Kagame of Rwanda, WTO's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, UBA's Tony O. Elumelu, WHO's Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, IFC's Makhtar Sop Diop, to Celebrate Africa Day at the UBA Africa Conversations 2021\nLAGOS, Nigeria, May 18, 2021/ -- The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc ( www.UBAgroup.com ), is set to celebrate this year's Africa Day in commemoration of African unity with the third edition of its annual UBA Africa Conversations, headlined by Africa's international leaders that include the President of Rwanda, H.E Mr Paul Kagame; Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation(WTO); Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation(WHO) and Mr. Makhtar Sop Diop, Managing Director, International Finance Corporation(IFC).
  • The conversations will be held online on africaday.UBAgroup.com .\nAt a time of unparalleled African leadership in global organisations, the UBA Africa Conversations provides the opportunity for an African and global audience to hear directly from our distinguished guests on Africa's relationship with the world, the opportunities and the challenges, and their own personal journeys.\nModerated by Tony O. Elumelu, the Group Chairman, UBA and Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, discussions will be focused on Africa's development in the areas of the economy and finance, trade, health and the unity of the continent.\nThe theme this year is 'Bringing Africa to the World', epitomised by the global success of the panellists' careers.
  • The event will take place virtually on Tuesday May 25th, 2021 at 12pm WAT.\nAfrica Day has been celebrated since 1963 on May 25th across the African continent and worldwide.
  • With presence in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France, UBA is connecting people and businesses across Africa through retail; commercial and corporate banking; innovative cross-border payments and remittances; trade finance and ancillary banking services.\n18.05.2021 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.\nThe issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.\nThe DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.\n"

AHF: Ten Ways WHO Catastrophically Failed the World

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Vaccinations are ramping up, but much too slowly in many parts of the world \xe2\x80\x93 and countries like India are on \xe2\x80\x98fire,\xe2\x80\x99\xe2\x80\x9d said AHF President Michael Weinstein.

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  • Vaccinations are ramping up, but much too slowly in many parts of the world \xe2\x80\x93 and countries like India are on \xe2\x80\x98fire,\xe2\x80\x99\xe2\x80\x9d said AHF President Michael Weinstein.
  • \xe2\x80\x9cCoordinated international efforts to control COVID-19 have been virtually non-existent, raising the question\xe2\x80\x94why was the world so unprepared for this pandemic?
  • WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ultimately bears responsibility for WHO\xe2\x80\x99s actions, or lack thereof, from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Working with COVAX , they failed to garner the resources necessary to guarantee vaccine access for the developing world, failed to advocate for essential patent waivers, and failed to provide effective guidance on minimum standards or side effects.

GIOSTAR Launches Subsidiary to Combat COVID-19 and Long COVID

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Even more alarming, a University of Leicester investigation found that 7 in 10 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 didn\'t fully recover 5 months after discharge.

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  • Even more alarming, a University of Leicester investigation found that 7 in 10 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 didn\'t fully recover 5 months after discharge.
  • These grim statistics point to a dire global health crisis, with enormous projected costs of management.\n"Long COVID is very serious," noted World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
  • With the launch of GIOCOV, the company is now pursuing fully licensed status of stem cell treatment for COVID and Long COVID patients in the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), and the European Union (EU).
  • The adult stem cell technology is well developed, and has been used regularly in the Institute\'s clinical practice to treat many patients.\n'

Media advisory - Joint press conference by President Michel and Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

President Charles Michel will join Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization for a joint virtual press conference on an international pandemic treaty.

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  • President Charles Michel will join Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization for a joint virtual press conference on an international pandemic treaty.
  • This event will take place on Tuesday, 30 March 2021 at 10.00 CET (Geneva time) and is organised by the World Health Organization.
  • Indicative programme

    10.00 Opening remarks by President Charles Michel and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus10.10 Q&A session

    The virtual press conference can be followed via live streaming.

  • EU accredited journalists and journalists who had EUCO accreditation from June 2019 meeting or later will receive further instructions to be able to ask questions remotely.

No Transparency = No Confidence: Report on COVID-19 Origins Flawed From the Outset, Says AHF

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Ultimately, the investigation has failed to produce a definitive conclusion on the origins of COVID-19, which WHO Secretary-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus characterized as "all hypotheses are open."

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  • Ultimately, the investigation has failed to produce a definitive conclusion on the origins of COVID-19, which WHO Secretary-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus characterized as "all hypotheses are open."
  • It is of vital scientific importance that we learn the origin and early natural history of COVID-19 to prevent future outbreaks.
  • AHF will review the complete report in detail upon its release and issue additional information accordingly.
  • To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org , find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare and Instagram: @aidshealthcare
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The Worldcom PR Group Makes Available Free Communications Assets to Promote COVID Vaccinations

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

The Worldcom Public Relations Group (Worldcom), the leading global partnership of independent public relations firms, joined the fight against COVID-19 today to promote free communications assets to help companies and organizations to encourage employees to get vaccinated.

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  • The Worldcom Public Relations Group (Worldcom), the leading global partnership of independent public relations firms, joined the fight against COVID-19 today to promote free communications assets to help companies and organizations to encourage employees to get vaccinated.
  • Encouraging employees to be vaccinated makes a lot of sense which is why we are making our vaccination campaign completely free to all who wish to use it to motivate their employees.
  • The visual campaign assets, with images and a video, are available free at https://worldcomgroup.com/resources/worldcom-vaccination-campaign-resour...
    Todd Lynch, managing director of Worldcom, said: As the World Health Organization, Director Tedros Ghebreyesus said last year, Nobody is safe until everyone is safe.
  • Through Worldcom, clients have on-demand access to in-depth communications expertise from professionals who understand the language, culture and customs of the geographic areas in which they operate.

Global Immunization Possible by 2022 With Fair Vaccine Distribution, Says WHO COVID-19 Special Envoy

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Thursday, March 11, 2021

The current free-for-all approach to vaccine supplies with a small number of nations trying to outbid one another, doesnt work.

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  • The current free-for-all approach to vaccine supplies with a small number of nations trying to outbid one another, doesnt work.
  • But fair access to vaccine for everybody, the objective for immunization, at least by 2022, is a reasonable prospect, he said.
  • Earlier, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO, said: Vaccine nationalism will only prolong the pandemic, and the human and economic suffering that goes with it.
  • He claimed: The idea of Elon Musk to have a million people settle on Mars is a dangerous delusion.