🌎 Strengthening our Region’s medical production capacity has been on our to-do list since day one, but we cannot build all these systems and infrastructure immediately.
It is time to turn our rhetoric into action and our commitments into achievements.
🌎 We are coordinating across regional and international partners to shape a shared roadmap to improve health technologies production capacity in the Americas. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
🌎 PAHO is rolling out several initiatives to increase the capacity of agencies in the Americas, including a new regional policy to strengthen national regulatory systems, which will guide countries as they promote innovation and respond to emergencies. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
🌎 Last year, we launched the Regional Platform to Advance Manufacturing of COVID Vaccines and other Health Technologies. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19Aus
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🌎 We are focusing on efforts to strengthen Latin America and the Caribbean’s research & development capacity, particularly in mRNA vaccine development.
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🌎 In the Americas, a total of 1,325 monkeypox cases have been reported since May 10 in 14 countries and territories, with no deaths. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
🌎 There are likely to be outbreaks of other diseases that will require us to rapidly develop and deploy new vaccines, diagnostics, and drugs to fight them. One such disease is monkeypox. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19Aus
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🌎 This means reintroducing public health measures like masks 😷 and social distancing when cases spike. Some countries have already begun to do this.
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🌎 This virus knows no borders, especially now that international travel has resumed. We must use every tool 🛠 at our disposal to protect ourselves, particularly those of us most vulnerable to severe disease and death. @DirOPSPAHO #COVID19
🌎 Last week, 1,562,967 cases 🦠 of COVD-19 and 4,789 deaths were reported — a 0.9% decrease in cases overall and a 3.5% decrease in deaths compared to the previous week.
