In a year when COVID-19 threatens the health and well-being of everyone on the planet, the seventy-fourthsession of the World Health Assembly (WHA) will stress the urgency of ending the current pandemic and preventing the next one by building a healthier, safer and fairer world.The Health Assembly is WHO’s highest decision-making body and is attended by delegations from all around the world.
It will also be open to Associate Members, Observers, invited representatives of the UN and other participating inter-governmental organizations, and non-State actors.
This year’s session will run from 24 May to 1 June 2021, and be held virtually. Over the past year, cases of COVID-19 rose 40-fold to 162 million globally, while the number of deaths has