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WHO offers free online courses to improve COVID-19 response worldwide

The World Health Organization (WHO) is revving up its response against the Coronavirus pandemic by offering free online courses on OpenWHO.

Info about the World health Organization's OpenWHO platform | Source: WHO (website)

OpenWHO is the organization's new interactive, online knowledge-sharing platform that allows them and their key partners to disseminate life-saving knowledge to medical frontliners worldwide.

WHO offers several courses about the Coronavirus Disease and other essential knowledge for outbreak response.

Sample free online courses on OpenWHO | Source: WHO (website)

The free online courses are self-paced, sorted by proficiency level, and are also available in different languages such as Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Once enrolled, learners will have access to off-line downloads, peer discussion boards and live briefings from ongoing health emergencies.

WHO's announcement of their COVID-19-related courses on OpenWHO | Source: WHO (LinkedIn)

With OpenWHO, the organization gets to provide health professionals, decision-makers and also the public, with the latest scientific findings and operation know-how that are vital for the success of global health emergency response efforts.

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And, if you wish to make monetary donations in order to provide much-needed medical supplies for the courageous medical frontliners, you can do so through GMA Kapuso Foundation.

Visit the Kapuso Foundation site here: https://www.gmanetwork.com/kapusofoundation/donate

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