World Health Assembly to focus on COVID-19, health and peace

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World Health Assembly to focus on COVID-19, health and peace

STORY: World Health Assembly to focus on COVID-19, health and peace DATELINE: May 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland CATEGORY: POLITICS/HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of WHO headquarters 2. SOUNDBITE (English): TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, WHO Director-General STORYLINE: The 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) kicked off in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sunday to focus on major issues including response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the global health for peace initiative. COVID-19 remains one of the top priorities of this year's WHA, which has been the first of its kind held in Geneva and attended by delegates in person since the outbreak of the pandemic more than two years ago. Although WHO data show that reported COVID-19 cases have declined significantly from the peak of the Omicron wave in January of this year and deaths are at the lowest since March 2020, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in his address to the opening of the WHA that the pandemic is

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