An independent panel has slammed China and the World Health Organisation (WHO) for early shortcomings in the initial response to the coronavirus pandemic.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Monday the world is "on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure" because of unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution.Why it.
Panel: China, World Health Organisation should ve acted quicker to stop coronavirus pandemic
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Last Updated: Jan 19, 2021, 04:17 PM IST
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In a report issued Monday, the panel led by former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said there were lost opportunities to apply basic public health measures at the earliest opportunity and that Chinese authorities could have applied their efforts more forcefully in January shortly after the coronavirus began sickening clusters of people.
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GENEVA: A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the U.N. health agency should have labeled it a pandemic sooner.
GENEVA (AP) A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and.