The tone rises on the side of the World Health Organization (WHO). "The world should have listened carefully to the WHO," UN agency chief executive Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday about the Covid-19 epidemic on Monday during a press conference in Geneva. "The global emergency was launched on January 30," he said .

"Our biggest concern is the possibility that the virus will spread to countries with weaker health systems," he said in late January. This is not a vote of no confidence in the China." At the time, 82 cases were recorded outside of China, and no deaths.

Last week, he defended his agency against criticism, claiming to have alerted "at the right time" of the global health emergency facing the Covid-19 pandemic. He warned that the world was far from over with the new coronavirus.

With AFP

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