{"id":50122,"date":"2020-07-13T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/congo\/reminder-who-africa-online-press-briefing-on-covid-19-and-vaccine-development-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:30:09","slug":"reminder-who-africa-online-press-briefing-on-covid-19-and-vaccine-development-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/uncategorized\/reminder-who-africa-online-press-briefing-on-covid-19-and-vaccine-development-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"REMINDER: WHO Africa Online Press Briefing on COVID-19 and vaccine development in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Please join an online media briefing with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa (www.afro.who.int), and the Principal Investigator of Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Trial in South Africa. The briefing is on-the-record and it is an opportunity for you to ask questions about the COVID-19 and vaccine development in Africa. The media briefing is facilitated by APO Group.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:40px\"><strong>\u2022 Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Shabir Madhi, Wits University, Principal Investigator of Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Trial in South Africa<br \/>\n\u2022 Professor Pontiano Kaleebu, Director MRC\/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr Delese Mimi Darko, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Food and Drugs Authority\u00a0<\/strong>\u200b<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday 9 July<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:\u00a0<\/strong>12:00 Brazzaville\/Kinshasa Time GMT +1 \/ 13:00 Central Africa Time\u00a0 \/ 14:00 Nairobi Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moderated by:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tsepiso Makwetla, Journalist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong>\u00a0English\/ French<\/p>\n<p><strong>To attend, please register at<\/strong>: https:\/\/APO-opa.com\/who<\/p>\n<p>Interpretation will be provided in\u00a0<strong>French<\/strong>. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to access the event.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00a0<strong>send questions in advance<\/strong>\u00a0in English or French. Please email Collins Boakye-Agyemang: boakyeagyemangc@who.int and Danielle Siemeni: ngom@who.int with your full name, your country and your media organization. Anonymous questions will not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>You can also\u00a0<strong>ask questions live<\/strong>\u00a0during the briefing using the Q&amp;A function in Zoom. Please specify your full name, your country and the media organization you work for.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of WHO Regional Office for Africa.<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/who-africa.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/reminder-who-africa-online-press-briefing-on-covid19-and-vaccine-development-in-africa?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Republic of Congo\" href=\"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/congo\/\">Congo<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join an online media briefing with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa (www.afro.who.int), and the Principal Investigator of Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Trial in South Africa. The briefing is on-the-record and it is an opportunity for you to ask questions about the COVID-19 and vaccine development in Africa. The media briefing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[258,256,6453,4696,4554,8378,8379,8381,32926,5989,257,6849,6010,34591,254,13567,8380],"class_list":["post-50122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-briefing","tag-central-africa","tag-congo","tag-congo-news","tag-congo-republic","tag-congo-brazzaville","tag-covid19","tag-development","tag-news","tag-online","tag-press","tag-reminder","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccine","tag-west-congo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}