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Met dank overgenomen van Europese Commissie (EC), gepubliceerd op vrijdag 21 mei 2021. Thank you very much, Mario. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening to all of you. Excellencies, dear friends, Distinguished guests and esteemed representatives, We have many international and multilateral organisations here. You are here with us today. Welcome to the Global Health Summit. It is an honour and it is a privilege to chair this meeting with my dear friend Prime Minister Draghi. Indeed, one year ago, Italy was the epicentre of the pandemic. We saw the virus raging. We saw the despair on th...

Ontario is resuming use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 but only as a second dose. Dr. David Williams, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said Friday that those who received the first dose of AstraZeneca between March 10 and March 19 would be first in line to receive their second dose. Starting next week, those people could opt to receive the second dose at an earlier 10-week interval in order to use up the 55,000 doses currently in refrigerators in pharmacies and family doctors’ offices,  some of which will expire at the end of May. The province said it i...

President Parmelin represents Switzerland at G20 Global Health Summit Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research Bern, 21.05.2021 - President Guy Parmelin represented Switzerland at the Global Health Summit on 21 May, which was organised by the European Commission and Italy, which currently holds the presidency of the G20. Due to the pandemic, the event took place as a video conference. Among the topics discussed were the lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 crisis, and how the world community can improve global health protection through solid...

The Global Health Summit kicked off here on Friday, with world leaders and representatives of international organizations gathering in a daylong conference aimed at coordinating worldwide efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic.

G20 leaders boost support of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator but urgent and immediate action is needed to maintain momentum Format 21 May 2021 | Geneva -- World leaders today met at the Global Health Summit, co-hosted by the European Commission and Italy as part of its G20 presidency, to adopt an agenda to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic, and develop and endorse a Rome Declaration of principles, at a time when the virus is surging and spreading uncontrollably in many parts of the world. With nine people losing their lives to COVID-19 every minute, and as the risk of even more tr...