A recent WHO survey found that among people dying of COVID-19 in Italy, 68% had high blood pressure and in Spain, 43% of people who developed COVID-19 were living with heart disease.
“ Governments have a responsibility to protect the health of their people and help reverse the tobacco epidemic.
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使我们的社区远离烟草可减少与烟草相关的住院次数，这在当前大流行的背景下比以往任何时候都重要。”
Making our communities smoke-free reduces the number of tobacco-related hospital admissions, which is more important than ever in the context of the current pandemic,” said Dr Vinayak Prasad, Unit Lead of the WHO No Tobacco Unit.
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控烟是减少心脏病的一个关键要素。
Tobacco control is a key element for reducing heart disease.
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政府可以通过提高烟草税、禁止烟草广告和提供戒烟服务来帮助吸烟者戒烟。
Governments can help tobacco users quit by increasing tax on tobacco products, enforcing bans on tobacco advertising and offering services to help people give up tobacco.
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世卫组织宣布刚果民主共和国埃博拉疫情结束
WHO declares end of Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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2014年11月21日 | 声明
21 November 2014 | Statement
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世卫组织于8月24日收到刚果民主共和国通报，该国赤道省Jeera县发生一起埃博拉病毒病疫情。
On 24 August, WHO was notified by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Jeera County, Equateur Province.