The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that it has warned from the start about the dangers of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 167,000 people worldwide.
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“We have been warning from day one that it is a demon that everyone should fight,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a virtual conference in Geneva, facing criticism from the US president, Donald trump, and Republican allies.
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Amid the pandemic, the White House announced the suspension of funding to the world health organization and accuses it of being close to China and mismanaging the pandemic.
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“We launched an alert from the first day,” reinforced the expert. At his side, the director of WHO emergency programs, Michael Ryan, said that since January 1 there were representatives of the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stationed at the WHO headquarters in Geneva in the framework of the “response to covid-19”.
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The WHO chief defended his position, implying that “the fact that CDC staff are here is an advantage … There are no secrets at WHO. Because if we keep secret or confidential information it is dangerous. “
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He also reiterated his call for “unity” and “world solidarity” because otherwise, he said, “I can assure you that the worst awaits us,” because “politics is capable of fueling the pandemic.”
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WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus implores world leaders to try to unify their respective countries.
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