CL Hello and welcome, everyone, to today’s WHO virtual press conference on COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and other global health issues. It is Wednesday, 9 March 2002, and my name is ChristianLindmeier.
We have a strong panel here today again for you but first let me state we have simultaneous translation interpretation provided in the six official UN languages, plus in Portuguese and Hindi. Now, back to the panel.
Here, in the room, we have Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director- General, Dr Mike Ryan, the Executive Director for WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, the Technical Lead on COVID-19, Dr Socé Fall, AssistantDirector-General for Emergency Response, and Dr Adelheid Marschang, the Senior Emergency Officer at the Emergencies Programme.