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WHO publishes interactive timeline of its response
30 July 2020
To mark six months since WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern, the highest level of alarm under international law, WHO published an interactive timeline showcasing how the organization has taken action on information, science, leadership, advice, response and resourcing.
Key materials:
Interactive timeline
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 27 July 2020
WHO experts to travel to China
7 July 2020
WHO experts will travel to China to work together with their Chinese counterparts to prepare scientific plans for identifying the zoonotic source of the SARS-COV-2 virus. The experts will develop the scope and TOR for a WHO-led international mission.
Key materials:
Statement
WHO marks six-month anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak
29 June 2020
WHO published an updated and detailed timeline of WHO’s response to the pandemic on our website, so the public can have a look at what happened in the past six months in relation to the response. It illustrates the range of WHO’s work to stop transmission and save lives.
Key materials:
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 29 June 2020
Video: How has WHO responded to COVID-19
Timeline of WHO's response to COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine arm of Solidarity Trial stops
17 June 2020
WHO announced that the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) arm of the Solidarity Trial to find an effective COVID-19 treatment was being stopped.
The trial's Executive Group and principal investigators made the decision based on evidence from the Solidarity trial, UK's Recovery trial and a Cochrane review of other evidence on hydroxychloroquine.
Data from Solidarity (including the French Discovery trial data) and the recently announced results from the UK's Recovery trial both showed that hydroxychloroquine does not result in the reduction of mortality of hospitalised COVID-19 patients, when compared with standard of care.
Investigators will not randomize further patients to hydroxychloroquine in the Solidarity trial. Patients who have already started hydroxychloroquine but who have not yet finished their course in the trial may complete their course or stop at the discretion of the supervising physician.
This decision applies only to the conduct of the Solidarity trial and does not apply to the use or evaluation of hydroxychloroquine in pre or post-exposure prophylaxis in patients exposed to COVID-19.WHO publishes interactive timeline of its response
30 July 2020
To mark six months since WHO declared a public health emergency of international concern, the highest level of alarm under international law, WHO published an interactive timeline showcasing how the organization has taken action on information, science, leadership, advice, response and resourcing.
Key materials:
Interactive timeline
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 27 July 2020
WHO experts to travel to China
7 July 2020
WHO experts will travel to China to work together with their Chinese counterparts to prepare scientific plans for identifying the zoonotic source of the SARS-COV-2 virus. The experts will develop the scope and TOR for a WHO-led international mission.
Key materials:
Statement
WHO marks six-month anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak
29 June 2020
WHO published an updated and detailed timeline of WHO’s response to the pandemic on our website, so the public can have a look at what happened in the past six months in relation to the response. It illustrates the range of WHO’s work to stop transmission and save lives.
Key materials:
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 29 June 2020
Video: How has WHO responded to COVID-19
Timeline of WHO's response to COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine arm of Solidarity Trial stops
17 June 2020
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WHO
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World Health Organization