This year’s World PT Day materials have been translated into more than 50 languages – from Albanian to Vietnamese.
“Many of us have been affected by COVID-19, personally and professionally. It’s important we take time today to think about our friends and colleagues who have died or are living with the consequences of COVID-19.”
The World PT Day materials are available, or in production, in 19 of the top 20 most spoken languages in the world:
- English (1,268m speakers)
- Traditional Chinese (1,120m speakers)
- Hindi (637m speakers)
- Spanish (538m speakers)
- French (277m speakers)
- Arabic (274m speakers)
- Bangla (265m speakers)
- Russian (258m speakers)
- Portuguese (252m speakers)
- Indonesian (199m speakers)
- Urdu (171m speakers)
- German (132m speakers)
- Japanese (126m speakers)
- Swahili (99m speakers)
- Marathi (95m speakers)
- Telegu (93m speakers)
- Turkish (85m speakers)
- Tamil (84m speakers)
- Punjabi (83m speakers)
Yue Chinese (85m speakers) is the only language in the top 20 spoken languages list that is not included in the translations for World PT Day.
The World PT Day materials are also available, or in production, in: Albanian, Assamese, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hungarian, Igbo, Italian, Kurdish, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Montenegrin, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovenian, Tajik, Thai, Vietnamese.
World PT Day toolkit
The World PT Day toolkit includes a range of materials to share the campaign in your country/territory.
As part of the response to COVID-19, many countries/territories have introduced restrictions about holding large events and gatherings. Please consider this when making plans for World PT Day and make sure you follow any
You may want to consider developing campaigns and activities on social media, radio and TV.