Region’s health ministers endorse action to promote access to vaccines, safe surgery and healthy ageing - 9 October 2020 

Health ministers across the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region endorsed action plans to improve access to life-saving vaccines and safe and affordable surgery and to promote healthy ageing. The resolutions were adopted on the final day of the seventy-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, which was held virtually this week.

Region’s leaders gather virtually to tackle COVID-19 and other health issues, chart WHO’s work in the Western Pacific - 6 October 2020 

The seventy-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific is being held online from 6 to 9 October 2020. Health ministers and senior officials from countries and areas across Asia and the Pacific are gathering virtually to agree actions on health issues of the region and chart priorities for the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific.

Collectively strengthen pandemic response; plan for COVID-19 vaccination: WHO

8 October 2020