Tag: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Biden Seeks New Unilateral Powers for WHO Chief to Declare Public Health Emergencies

President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing amendments to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) governing regulations to give Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus unilateral authority to declare a public health emergency in any nation based on whatever evidence he chooses. The proposed U.S. amendments were forwarded to the WHO in January for consideration next week by the UN’s…


WHO Chief Says China’s Zero-COVID Policy is Not Sustainable

The head of the World Health Organization said May 10 that the Chinese regime’s zero-COVID policy is “unsustainable,” a rare criticism that has been quickly censored on China’s Internet. “When we talk about the zero-Covid strategy, we don’t think that it’s sustainable, considering the behavior of the virus now and what we anticipate in the…


Proposal of Sanctions on Countries Disobeying WHO Pandemic Response Rules Concerning: Author

Failure to cooperate with the World Health Organization (WHO) during a pandemic should prompt sanctions on a country, some officials and experts are proposing. They point to China’s failure to share early information and fully cooperate with investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Others, however, have sounded the alarm about giving the WHO too…


Proposal to Sanction Countries Disobeying WHO Pandemic Response Rules Concerning: Author

Failure to cooperate with the World Health Organization (WHO) during a pandemic should prompt sanctions on a country, some officials and experts are proposing. They point to China’s failure to share early information and fully cooperate with investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Others, however, have sounded the alarm about giving the WHO too…


WHO Outlines Strategy to End Global COVID-19 Emergency in 2022

The World Health Organization on Wednesday unveiled an updated plan for COVID-19 that, if implemented “rapidly and consistently” this year, will allow the world to end the emergency phase of the pandemic. The plan—the WHO’s third on COVID-19—includes three potential scenarios for how the virus might evolve in the next 12 months: a base case,…


WHO’s Tedros Warns Holiday Gatherings Could Result in COVID-19 Surge, Urges People to Cancel Events

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that holiday gatherings over Christmas could result in a surge of COVID-19, and urged people to cancel such events in light of the new Omicron variant. Health experts in South Africa, where the new variant was first discovered, have said Omicron is not driving up hospitalizations or…


Global License Deal Will ‘Turn the Tide’ on Pandemic, WHO Says

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it has finalized a global license deal to ramp up production of a serological technology that detects COVID-19 antibodies, something the agency says will “turn the tide” on the pandemic. The license will be provided royalty-free to poor and middle-income countries, the WHO announced in a news…


WHO’s Tedros Wins German Backing for Second Term

BERLIN—German Health Minister Jens Spahn backed a second term for World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and called on other countries to support the former Ethiopian health minister ahead of a deadline this week. “We invite partner countries to join us nominating DG (Director General) Tedros,” Spahn told Reuters. The support is significant as…


Newly-Released Documents Detail US-Funded Coronavirus Research at Wuhan Institute of Virology: Report

New documents have been released detailing U.S.-funded research on various types of coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, where the first outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus occurred. More than 900 pages of materials were obtained by The Intercept in connection with a Freedom of Information lawsuit by the publication against the National…


WHO Correcting Multiple ‘Editing Errors’ In Joint Report With China Over CCP Virus Origins

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it will correct multiple “unintended errors” in a joint report with China regarding the origins of the CCP virus, and will look into other possible discrepancies, The Washington Post reports. WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic confirmed to The Post that it would be addressing “editing errors,” found in its report released months ago but noted that the…