Wednesday, 25 August 2021

MEDIA ADVISORY

REMINDER: COVID-19 Virtual Press Conference

When: Wednesday, 25 August at 17.00 CEST

Subject: COVID-19 updates and global collaboration on financing pandemic preparedness and response

Special guest: H.E. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies of the Republic of Singapore, and the Co-Chair of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Join via Zoom:

Link: https://who-e.zoom.us/j/98534233114
Passcode: WHOVPCau25

Join by phone:

Webinar ID: 985 3423 3114
Numeric Passcode for phone access: 9762347190
International numbers available: https://who-e.zoom.us/u/aiCQiWTV9

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS:

Please ensure you enter your name and media outlet (use name/outlet). Kindly note, only questions from media (one per journalist) are allowed. When you sign in you will be automatically put in the meeting room.

WHO reserves the right to remove any participant whose behaviour causes any disruption. The event is also broadcast on WHO social media channels and you can follow it there.

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Please make sure you have a microphone connected or active on your computer. Do not ask questions via the chat as we cannot guarantee that we will can incorporate them into the q&a session. 

For translation during the VPC, choices are under "interpretation" or "language interpretation" depending on which version of Zoom you use.

Due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone.

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