Virtual meeting with World Health Organisation

The Minister for Public Health Dr John Cortes, Director of Public Health Dr Sohail Bhatti, and Civil Contingencies Coordinator Ivor Lopez, yesterday participated in a virtual meeting of the World Health Organisation’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards.

This was at the invitation of its Chair, Prof David Heymann, who holds regular briefings with Public Health Gibraltar and GHA representatives.

At the meeting, Dr Bhatti gave a presentation on how Gibraltar has dealt with the COVID-19 threat, giving a resumé of the process followed and presenting data on cases and other statistics.

According to the Gibraltar Government the presentation was extremely well received by the WHO Group's members who congratulated Gibraltar and who felt that a great deal can be learnt from Gibraltar’s approach to the pandemic.