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Foreign ministers at the UN Security Council discuss COVID-19 and equitable access to vaccines
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Formins to discuss COVID-19, equitable access to vaccines at UN Security Council 2021-02-16 BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN - A high-level meeting is to be held at the UN Security Council on the initiative of the United Kingdom on Wednesday to discuss COVID-19 and vaccines.
The virtual meeting is chaired by Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Dominic Raab, spokespeople for the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets attends her first UN Security Council meeting.
The meeting focuses on fighting the pandemic and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines in conflict-affected areas. The agenda includes topics like the safety of healthcare professionals and the availability of logistics networks when delivering vaccines to vulnerable groups in areas affected by conflict. The ministers will also look at the role of the UN Security Council in solving the issue and in the fight against disinformation related to vaccines.
Publication Date January 15, 2021 If health and risk communication information and approaches remain static and are not updated to reflect the changing concerns, questions, and suggestions from communities, they will not remain relevant or trusted by people and the epidemic response will fail. This update to the risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) strategy for COVID-19 in Africa first set out in March 2020 (
see Related Summaries, below) reflects lessons learned since the start of the pandemic and focuses on what the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is aiming to achieve over the coming year, including on building and maintaining trust in the vaccine.