WHO reports most coronavirus cases in a day as cases near five million
FILE PHOTO: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization attends the virtual 73rd World Health Assembly during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland, May 19, 2020. Christopher Black/WHO/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
“We still have a long way to go in this pandemic,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference. “We are very concerned about rising cases in low and middle income countries.” The WHO has come under fire from U.S. President Donald Trump, who accuses it of having mishandled the outbreak and of favouring China, where the virus is believed to have emerged late last year. This week Trump threatened to withdraw from the WHO and permanently withhold funding.Tedros said he was committed to accountability and would carry out a review into the response to the pandemic.
Tedros said he had long been looking for other sources of funding for the WHO, saying its $2.3 billion budget was “very, very small” for a global agency, around that of a medium sized hospital in the developed world.
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