(14 Sep 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv - 14 September 2022
1. Establishing shot of World Health Organization press conference
2. Screen reading (English): "72nd session of the WHO regional committee for Europe"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Kluge, Regional Director, Europe, WHO:
"The pandemic itself is not over. Many journalists are asking me 'has the virus now gone?' No, the virus has never gone. It keeps changing, it keeps taking unnecessary lives; last week alone, more than 3,000. But we are much better prepared so there is really reason for optimism. The most important is that countries have a strong surveillance system in place so they are able to quickly detect if there will be a new variant."
4. Press conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Kluge, Regional Director, Europe, WHO:
"We know the power of digital health to transform the health care landscape but now after COVID-19, digital is not optional anymore, it's obligatory. But we need frontrunners to show very pragmatic, the way forward."
6. Press conference
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nitzan Horowitz, Israeli Health Minister:
"Abortion is not only a human right, not only a woman's right to make a decision concerning life, it is also her right to health. It's a health right. In Israel, we recently passed new regulations that make it much easier for women to choose to have an abortion with minimal bureaucracy and less state intervention in their decision."
8. Press conference
STORYLINE:
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over and that it has shown the necessity of transitioning to digital health platforms.
"The virus has never gone. It keeps changing, it keeps taking unnecessary lives," said WHO regional director for Europe Hans Kluge.
He was speaking at the 72nd session of the WHO regional committee for Europe which is being held in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Kluge said countries must bring their health systems online especially in the aftermath of the pandemic which showed how essential digital systems have become.
"We know the power of digital health to transform the health care landscape but now after COVID-19, digital is not optional anymore, it's obligatory," he said.
He pointed to Israel as a leader in the area.
Israel's official health care organizations have long been online and the country has steadily increased its digital health capabilities.
Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said the country was planning to build an international digital health center to guide other countries transitioning toward online health.
Horowitz also expressed Israel's health priorities which include making abortion safe and easier for women in the country to access.
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