The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) kindly invite you to join a webinar on West Nile virus and Usutu virus infections among humans and animals, with a focus on the situation in the European Union.
Journalists are invited to a digital press briefing about COVID-19 with Stella Kyriakides, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Lena Hallengren, Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs, and Andrea Ammon, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
In order to promote an exchange of emerging good practices and lessons learned regarding equitable uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in EU/EEA countries, ECDC held a webinar on 23 June 2021 to bring together stakeholders from national public health authorities and from civil society.
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