Public health round-up

The news article includes nine pieces of short news stories; Gavi COVAX Facility began signing formal agreements with novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19) vaccine developers and manufacturers to secure the doses needed to meet a one billion dose target that has been set for the end of 2021. WHO is providing policy guidance on the use of the tests and has granted Emergency Use Listing. Also, according to a new WHO survey of 130 countries which was published on 5 October, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 9 out of 10 countries worldwide. With UN partners and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, the WHO issued a joint statement calling on countries to implement plans to tackle the problem of misinformation. Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year according to the first-ever joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank Group, and the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

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World Health Organization (2020) Public health round-up. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2020;98:729-730.