GENEVA: The World Health Organization insisted on Monday that it sounded the alarm on the novel coronavirus right from the very start and had hidden nothing from Washington about the deadly pandemic.
The United States has by far the highest death toll of any country, at more than 40,000 fatalities, and President Donald Trump has faced criticsm over his handling of the pandemic.Washington is the biggest contributor to the WHO but Trump is freezing funding, alleging that the organisation mismanaged and covered up the spread the virus.Tedros said the presence of embedded US government secondees working at the WHO headquarters in Geneva meant there was nothing being concealed from Washington.
"WHO is open. We don't hide anything. Not only for CDC, them sending messages, or others - we want all countries to get the same message immediately because that helps countries to prepare well and to prepare quickly."The US State Department has said the WHO was too late in sounding the alarm over COVID-19 and is overly deferential to China.
But Tedros insisted that the WHO was already aware of reports emanating from Wuhan - and said Taiwan's email was only seeking further information.
Got alarm meh?
Perhaps WHO's alarm was on silent or vibration mode!
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