The U.N. health agency chief expressed rare displeasure with China over delays preventing a scientific team from investigating how COVID-19 originated.
GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. health agency chief expressed displeasure with China on Tuesday over bureaucratic delays preventing an international team from entering the country to investigate how COVID-19 originated.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a politician and public health expert who headed Ethiopia’s foreign affairs and health ministries, has rarely criticized Chinese officials in connection with the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in late December 2019.
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The France-based court was created to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, which took effect in 1953.
Negotiators and officials aim to wrap up so that May's 77th World Health Assembly can consider a proposed text.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
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Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
