NEW DELHI: Ahead of its election as the chair of the World Health Organization’s decision-making Executive Board at its session early next week, India has joined a group of countries to seek an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation" into the WHO’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
A text of the resolution available on the WHO website is clear that India along with countries like Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russia, South Africa, the European Union, Turkey and the UK is seeking an “evaluation" and not a “probe" of the WHO’s response to the covid-19 pandemic.