NOTE TO MEDIA: Updated WHO Director-General opening remarks at the virtual press conference on global health issues held on 5 March 2026

No images? Click here Friday, 6 March 2026 NOTE TO MEDIA The opening remarks by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the virtual press conference held yesterday, 5 March, have been reissued with a correction.  The updated remarks show that an estimated 100 000 people have left the city of Tehran, not Iran, as previously stated. 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       Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe