{UAH} Ocen, Allan//WHO chief says 'the world should have listened to us carefully' in January

Folks;

Hats off to this son of the soil, whose last name means "Servant of Jesus." 

He's telling off US for its dithering response to the Coronavirus outbreak, and them projecting its missteps to the WHO, China, Liberals, media, the Russian investigation, CDC, and the whole kit and caboodle.

Pojim

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-world-health-organization-world-listened-carefully-163226610.html

The chief of the World Health Organization has said countries that failed to heed its warnings have fared less successfully in their response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus defended the UN organisation's response to the outbreak, stating the WHO issued its highest alert when there were only 82 confirmed cases or coronavirus and zero deaths outside China.

The WHO has come in for some criticism in its response to the outbreak, particularly from US president Donald Trump when he called it 'China-centric' and threatened to withhold funding.

Speaking at a WHO briefing on Monday, Dr Tedros said:  "We can only give advice to countries. We don't have any mandate to force countries to implement what we advise them. On January 30, we declared the highest level of emergency, global emergency on COVID-19

"During that time, there were only 82 cases outside China.

"No cases in Latin America, no cases in Africa. Only 10 cases in Europe. No deaths in the rest of the world. Nothing.

"The world should have listened to the WHO carefully. 

"Every country could have trigged all its public health measures possible.

"We advised the whole world to implement a comprehensive public health approach - find, test, contact tracing and so on.

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"The countries who followed that are in a better position than others."

Amidst criticism from Trump and suggestions that Washington could review its funding for the agency, Ghebreyesus called for unity and a halt to "politicisation" of the global health crisis.

As its top doner, US contributions to the WHO in 2019 exceeded $400 million, almost double the second-largest country donor, according to US figures, contributing nearly 15% of the budget.