Your Excellencies, Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis that has been met with an unprecedented global response.
Research and development have played a central role. Since January, WHO has been working with thousands of researchers all over the world to accelerate and track vaccine development - from developing animal models to clinical trial designs, and everything in between.
We’ve also developed diagnostics that are being used all over the world; And we’re coordinating a global trial on the safety and efficacy of four therapeutics against COVID-19.