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The world is running out of masks and other protective equipment against the novel coronavirus, the World Health Organization chief warns during a daily press briefing. SOUNDBITE
UN climate chief Simon Stiell warns that global warming will "decimate G20 economies" without unity. "Sidelining climate isn’t a solution to a crisis that will decimate every G20 economy and has already started to hurt," he says during his address at the UK think tank Chatham House, London, UK. SOUNDBITE
The health system in the Gaza Strip is "on its knees," the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns the United Nations Security Council. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization declares that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency, almost exactly a year after the disease formerly known as monkeypox started spreading across the world. Following falling cases numbers, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells an online press conference he is "pleased to declare" that he had accepted the advice of the UN agency's emergency committee on mpox to lift its highest level of alarm. SOUNDBITE
At a press conference, WHO's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says "we continue to see misinformation on social media and mainstream media about the pandemic accord that countries are now negotiating". Earlier on Twitter, Elon Musk wrote "countries should not cede authority to WHO". Without naming the South African billionaire directly, the WHO chief says "the claim that the accord will cede power to WHO is quite simply false. It's fake news". SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that one of its doctors has been abducted in Mali by "unidentified assailants from his car". "We're working with local authorities to investigate the abduction and insure our colleague quick return to his family. Health workers should never be a target" Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus adds during a press conference in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
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