Press Release:- Ministers of Health and other high-level authorities of the countries and territories of the Americas will participate in the 59th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), from the 20-24 September, to debate and analyze the response to COVID-19 and other main health challenges facing the region. This will be the second consecutive year that the Directing Council will be held virtually. The presidents of Chile and Costa Rica, Sebastián Piñera and Carlos Alvarado Quesada, will speak at the opening ceremony of the Directing Council on Monday September 20 at 9.30am (Washington D.C. time), along with the