MEDIA ADVISORY: COVID-19 VIRTUAL PRESS CONFERENCE - 5 JANUARY 2021

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No images? Click here Tuesday 5 January 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY Date and Time: Tuesday 5 January 2021 at 1700 CET (Geneva time). An update will be sent if necessary. Subject: COVID-19 updates and recommendations to WHO on the use of COVID-19 vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA following today's extraordinary virtual meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE). Participation in the SAGE meeting is by invitation only. Special guest: Doctor Alejandro Cravioto, SAGE chair. Dr. Cravioto is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Other members of the SAGE Event notice about the meeting  Join the WHO press conference: https://who-e.zoom.us/j/95711940878 Password: n3wYe@r Join by phone: Webinar ID: 957 1194 0878 Numeric Passcode for phone:  7704965 International numbers available: https://who-e.zoom.us/u/apVqX6ZqY NOTES FOR THE VPC Please ensure you enter your name and media outlet (use name/outlet). Kindly note, only questions from media (one per journalist) are allowed. When you sign in you will be automatically put in the meeting room. WHO reserves the right to remove any participant whose behaviour causes any disruption. The event is also broadcast on WHO social media channels and you can follow it there. To ask a question, please click "raise hand" and this will enter you into the queue for questions. (It can be found under the tab: participants.)  Please make sure you have a microphone connected or active on your computer. Do not ask questions via the chat as we cannot guarantee that we will incorporate them into the q&a session.  For translation during the VPC, choices are under "interpretation" or "language interpretation" depending on which version of Zoom you use. Note that due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone. Media contacts: mediainquiries@who.int   You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team     World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland    Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  Unsubscribe