World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is up for reelection. After repeatedly endorsing the Chinese Communist Party’s slow and secretive response to the COVID-19 pandemic and helping it conceal the origins of the outbreak, he is asking the United States and other WHO member nations to support his bid.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said it is “assured” that the novel coronavirus, which has turned into a global pandemic, is “natural in origin” — this as the U.S. is increasingly eyeing a lab in Wuhan, China, as where the deadly outbreak may have started.
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), already under fire for his handling of the coronavirus, is facing more criticism for his ties to a political group that was designated as a terrorist organization by U.S. officials.
The coronavirus pandemic will offer many lessons in what to do better to save more lives and do less economic harm the next time. But there’s already one way to ensure future pandemics are less deadly: Reform or defund the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has shown an evident bias to accept Chinese declarations and denials at face value – this has created a delay in international responses.. This in spite of a very limited Chinese contribution to WHO, but it matches the weakness of other UN organizations in the face of China’s powerful campaigning. As China itself has reversed course on the epidemic, the WHO becomes once more an irreplaceable tool in health emergencies.
China’s decision to lock down Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, shows how committed the authorities are to contain a viral outbreak that emerged in a seafood market there, a World Health Organization representative in Beijing said.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China must lead the way in reforming global governance, the foreign ministry on Saturday cited President Xi Jinping as saying, as Beijing looks to increase its world influence.