NEW DELHI: India was elected to the World Health Organization’s decision making Executive Board on Tuesday, along with 10 other countries including Russia, the UK and South Korea, two people familiar with the matter said.
India will chair the Executive Board for 2020-21, taking the baton from Japan, one of the people cited above said. India’s chairing of the WHO’s Executive Board comes at a time when tensions between the US and China are running high over the origin of the novel coronavirus pandemic and whether Beijing had shared all information regarding the disease with countries.
It also comes at the US has demanded that the WHO institute "substantive improvements" in its working in 30 days or permanently forfeit US funding.