Zero Hedge: WHO Chief Praises China's "Forceful Measures", Blasts Rest-Of-World For Causing "Fear & Stigma"
In yet another stunning statement from the Director-General of the World Health Organization, up is down, war is peace, and caution is dangerous.
Having once again earlier denied that the novel coronavirus is a 'pandemic', saying instead that it's an epidemic with "multiple foci," and with people dropping down dead on the streets in China (and being forced into ambulances), WHO Director-General Tedros reiterated his previous stunning praise for China's "forceful measures" to halt the spread of the virus.
However, a member of the World Health Organization’s emergency committee on coronavirus has accused China of not reporting cases fast enough in the early stages of the outbreak last month, raising fresh questions about Beijing’s response to the health emergency. John Mackenzie, emeritus professor at Curtin University, said it defied logic that there was no increase in new cases at the same time that Chinese officials were holding local political meetings in January.
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Update #1: WHO chief denounces unnecessary interference with int'l travel, trade during coronavirus outbreak (Xinhua)
Update #2: Coronavirus: WHO Accuses ‘Wealthy Countries’ Of Failing To Share Data (Channels TV)
WNU Editor: No comment from the WHO Director on how China silenced the doctor who first warned that there was a crisis .... The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus (BBC).
3 comments:
The WHO involving itself in politics, I'm shocked, shocked I say.
if you deal with nations you deal with politics. I am not shocked
As an international health NGO of course there is a political dimension to your mandate, but not to interject yourself in foreign policy unless it is clearly health related. That is not the case here. Also as Wnu pointed out their consistency is iffy at best.
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