35th WHO Regulatory Update on COVID-19

6 June 2021

| COVID-19: Scientific brief

Overview

The IMF, WB, WHO and WTO principals have called for US$50 billion investment to generate US$9 trillion in global economic returns by 2025 and boost manufacturing capacity, supply, trade flows and the equitable distribution of diagnostics, oxygen, treatments, medical supplies and vaccines.

WHO has called on Member States to support a massive push to vaccinate at least 10 percent of the population of every country by September, and a “Drive to December” to achieve the goal of vaccinating at least 30 percent by the end of the year. Three actions are needed to make the “drive to December” happen are: 1) sharing of vaccine doses through COVAX now, 2) scale-up manufacturing, and 3) fully funding the ACT Accelerator.

WHO Team

Regulation and Prequalification (RPQ), Regulation and safety (REG)

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