The funding, announced connected Thursday, volition enactment the UN agency’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, portion of its broader One Health programme .
The inaugural helps safeguard human, animal, works and biology wellness passim the nutrient chain, from accumulation to depletion and discarded management.
FAO joins with partners the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), forming a tripartite connected the One Health approach, and expands its collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to mainstream and enactment implementation globally.
Strenghthening nationalist response
The US publication volition specifically beryllium utilized to fortify nationalist and planetary One Health systems done enhanced multi-sectoral aboriginal warning, hazard appraisal and hazard reduction, and progressive absorption of emerging and endemic precocious interaction carnal and works pests and diseases, including those with epidemic and pandemic potential.
“We convey the Government of the United States of America for its generous enactment to FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Program and One Health Tripartite hazard assessments astatine nationalist levels,” said FAO Director-General, Qu Dongyu.
“A science-based One Health attack crossed agrifood systems is captious for aboriginal informing and prevention of zoonotic diseases.”
The US backing volition payment countries successful Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Near East.
Americas: COVID-19 cases surpass 100 cardinal
The announcment comes arsenic COVID-19 cases successful the Americas surpassed 100 million, portion the Omicron variant has been reported successful astir 20 countries and territories, according to the determination bureau for the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said cases proceed to emergence successful North America, with the United States driving a 36 per cent summation successful the past week, portion parts of Central and South America showed declines.
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An indigenous pistillate and her kid successful Nariño successful Colombia. In Latin America, indigenous peoples are among the poorest.
‘Downward trend’ successful Central America
South America experienced an wide lawsuit driblet of 10.7 per cent, and a 6.3 per cent alteration successful deaths, latest epidemiological information revealed.
Bolivia reported a crisp increase, and Argentina and Ecuador besides saw cases rise.
PAHO said Central American countries continued to spot a “downward trend”, with a 10.8 per cent driblet successful cases.
Analysis showed that successful the Caribbean, cases roseate by 16 per cent. Trinidad and Tobago continued to study an increase. Although Barbados and the Cayman Islands person reported ample numbers of cases, these are present decreasing.
Keep up wellness measures
The Omicron variant has present been reported successful 19 countries and territories, accounting for an estimated 73 per cent of microorganism sequences implicit the past week.
PAHO continues to urge vaccination and different nationalist wellness measures to trim coronavirus spread, specified arsenic wearing masks, maintaining carnal distance, predominant manus washing and avoiding crowded spaces, particularly indoors.
“These measures are effectual against each variants, including Omicron”, Director Carissa F. Etienne said recently. “Countries should prolong their nationalist wellness measures to bounds transmission of the microorganism and set them according to section transmission risks”.
Meeting vaccine target
More than 868 cardinal vaccine doses person been administered successful Latin America and the Caribbean, wherever astir 58 per cent of the colonisation has completed inoculations.
PAHO has projected that astir countries crossed the portion volition person reached, oregon surpassed, the WHO people of vaccinating 40 per cent of their populations by the extremity of the year.
However, existent estimates amusement Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Guatemala, Saint Lucia, and Grenada, could miss the goal.
Meanwhile, immoderate 33 countries person received vaccines done the COVAX solidarity mechanism. So far, the full is 75 million, including 25 cardinal donated doses.
The logistics for these deliveries was handled done PAHO’s Revolving Fund for Access to Vaccines, which has served the portion for much than 40 years. The Fund is besides moving with countries to acquisition COVID-19 vaccines straight from manufacturers.
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