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On 17 September 2020, WHO's International partners and all countries marked World Patient Safety Day with a focus on increasing public awareness and engagement to address the challenges and risks health workers are facing globally, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said �No country, hospital or clinic can keep its patients safe unless it keeps its health workers safe. WHO�s Health Worker Safety Charter is a step towards ensuring that health workers have the safe working conditions, the training, the pay and the respect they deserve.�

In a bid to keep lowering infection rates amongst health workers, Nigeria�s Federal Capital Territory and all 36 state governments have invested in training their health workers with the support of WHO on infection prevention and control.

WHO is expanding access to online learning for COVID-19 through its open learning platform for health emergencies, "OpenWHO.org"
The OpenWHO platform was launched in June 2017 and published its first COVID-19 course on 26 January 2020.