Oxygen is an essential medicine used to care for patients at all levels of the healthcare system. The #COVID19 pandemic has accelerated global 🌐 demand for oxygen and made the delivery of oxygen supplies more urgent than ever. WHO is now part of a new COVID-19 Oxygen Emergency Taskforce* that is working to:⠀ ⠀ 1⃣ measure oxygen demand⠀ 2⃣ identify finance partners⠀ 3⃣ secure oxygen supplies⠀ 4⃣ provide technical support for worst-affected countries.⠀ ⠀ #WHOImpact ⠀ ⠀ *The taskforce includes unitaid, Wellcome, WHO, unicef, the GlobalFund, WorldBank, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, PATHGlobalHealth, the Every Breath Counts coalition and SaveTheChildren.⠀ ⠀ Photos by © WHO / Mustafa Saeed / Natalie Naccache / Fouzia Bano / Fabeha Monir / Bart Verweij