COVID-19: WHO to launch platform for collaborative sharing of data

The World Health Organization (WHO) will, in the next few weeks, launch a platform for open, collaborative sharing of knowledge, data and intellectual property on existing and new health tools to combat COVID-19, said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.

"At the beginning of the pandemic, President Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica asked me to set up a health technology repository for vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and any other tool that may work against COVID-19, WHO has accepted this visionary proposal," Tedros said at a press conference.

There are now over 4.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world, with over 300,000 deaths reported, according to data released by Johns Hopkins University. 

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