Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to represent India at WHO's 73rd World Health Assembly

World Health Assembly, organised by World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to commence on Monday, May 18 and Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan will be representing India at two-day meet.

In wake of COVID-19 pandemic, WHO has anunced that 73rd World Health Assembly will be held virtually. meeting will be centred on impact of Coronavirus and will witness participation of all 194 WHO member states and observers. nda of meeting has been limited to two days and will conclude on May 19. 

Coronavirus, which was first reported ins China's Wuhan city has infected 4.6 million people worldwide so far, including over 312,000 deaths.

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What is WHA 2020?

WHA is World Health Organization (WHO)’s plenary body whose member states approve organization’s budget, fill vacancies in its executive board, and vote on nda items, as per reports. two-day meeting will dress a resolution, proposed by EU to jointly develop affordable diagstics, medicines, and vaccines for Covid-19. Assembly is also set to vote on wher Taiwan should be invited to join as a WHO member amid its excellent COVID-19 response, in spite of China's strong opposition as it claims Taiwan as its territory- under one-China policy.

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Coronavirus crisis

First detected in Wuhan in December 2019, COVID-19- vel coronavirus has affected nearly 160 countries in world. As re is vaccine or specific antiviral medicine to deal to treat COVID-19, countries have been grappling with all possible mechanisms to contain its scope. So far, China, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Iran, US, France, UK, India have witnessed most number of confirmed cases.  With US as 'epicentre', Coronavirus has 4,745,453 cases globally with 313,747 deaths.

Meanwhile, India's count of coronavirus cases stands at 90,927, including 2,872 deaths and 34,109 discharged/migrated patients, according to Union Health Ministry.

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