100 days on the epidemic Corona and the world is resisting

Arab Weather - The World Health Organization announced that today, Thursday 9/4/2020, will have passed 100 days since the first cases of pneumonia in China are unknown.

It has been 100 days since the World Sakha organization reported the first "pneumonia of unknown causes" that appeared in China.

In details, the Director-General of the United Nations Organization reviewed at a press conference held in Geneva the most important accomplishments achieved during this period, and also pointed to the updates that faced the organization and faced it personally during the fight against this epidemic, "Corona"

This is how Corona Virus started his story!

"We were informed of the first cases of pneumonia in China on January 1; as a result, we activated its Incident Management Support Team to coordinate the response at headquarters, regionally and countryly," said WHO Director Tidros Adhanom Ghebriesos.

According to what Gabrius indicated to him, on January 5, the organization officially informed all member states about this new outbreak and published the news of the spread and outbreak of the disease through its official website.

WHO issued a set of guidelines on how to detect, test and manage potential cases and protect health personnel on January 10

On January 22, a public health emergency was announced!

At that time, there were no deaths from the Corona virus, but there were 98 infected cases outside of China!

In February, more and more experts began visits to China to discover more about this virus, and the UN Crisis Management Team was activated to coordinate the entire United Nations mechanism to support countries as effectively as possible.

The organization also worked to support countries in building their capacity to prepare and respond through the organization's network of 6 regional offices and 150 country offices. The organization issued a strategic preparedness and response plan, which identified the main actions that countries needed to take and the resources needed to implement them.

"We have worked with many partners to provide accurate information and to fight the spread of the disease, and we have published 50 technical guidance documents for the public, health workers and countries," said Gebriusos.

The WHO is still working hard to overcome this global epidemic. In the past two days, an online workshop was held to gather ideas from more than 600 experts, institutions and individuals on ways to combat this disease.

In addition to training health workers, more than 1.2 million people enrolled in 6 courses in 43 languages on the OpenWHO.org platform.

Gebriusos explained that the organization has accelerated research and development, bringing together more than 400 leading researchers in the world together to define and accelerate research priorities.

It also launched a solidarity experience with more than 90 countries working together to find effective treatments as quickly as possible.

He also stated that in order to understand the transmission of the virus and reach the diagnosis, they have developed research protocols that are used in more than 40 countries in a coordinated manner.

He indicated that 130 scientists, financiers and manufacturers from all over the world have signed a pledge to work with the World Health Organization to accelerate the development of a vaccine against COVID-19.

He explained that in the coming days the World Health Organization will issue an updated strategy, preparedness plan and a revised strategic response, with an estimate of the financial needs for the next stage of the epidemic.