NEW DELHI : World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said an independent evaluation of the global coronavirus response would be launched as soon as possible and China, where covid originated, also backed such a review.
Ghebreyesus made his promise during a virtual meeting of WHO’s decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, in Geneva. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who spoke before Ghebreyesus, defended his country’s handling of the crisis.
The comments come against the backdrop of mounting criticism against both the WHO and China over their alleged roles in allowing covid-19 to develop into a pandemic that has crippled the global economy, claimed more than 315,000 lives and also led to more