World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a statement on Thursday denying allegations from the government of Ethiopia that he is secretly backing the Tigray rebels in his home country’s steadily escalating civil war.
Ethiopian Army Chief of Staff Berhanu Jula gave a televised address on Wednesday in which he denounced Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a longtime member of the Ethiopian government but currently head of the World Health Organization (WHO), as a “criminal” for supporting the Tigray separatists who are fighting against the government in Addis Ababa. Berhanu called on Tedros to step down from his position at WHO, which did not immediately respond to his allegations.
In an unforeseen case of physician heal thyself, 65 World Health Organization (W.H.O.) headquarters staff in the Swiss lakeside city of Geneva have reportedly been laid low by an outbreak of the coronavirus.
The civil war brewing in Ethiopia escalated dangerously on Sunday when the insurgent Tigray region fired rockets across the border at the airport in Asmara, the capital of neighboring Eritrea.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that he looks forward to “working very closely” with the prospective administration of Joe Biden, who said he would immediately reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze U.S. support from the organization over its malfeasance during the Wuhan coronavirus crisis.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, chief of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), announced Sunday he is self-quarantining after a contact tested positive for the coronavirus.
The UK’s envoy to the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) has condemned mass coronavirus lockdowns, slamming the “ghastly global catastrophe” caused by crashing the world economy.
W.H.O. said Monday that ten percent of the globe, or over 760 million, have contracted the Chinese coronavirus, dwarfing estimates.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans on Monday morning released its final report on the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, which provided damning details of how Beijing tried to hide the outbreak of the virus, allowing for its spread to the rest of the world.
W.H.O. officials did an about-face Thursday on the agency’s coronavirus testing guidelines, proclaiming that broad-based population tests are “not really that useful.”
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) cautioned Friday the coronavirus pandemic still has two years to run as it issued a directive for masks to be worn by those aged 12 and over.
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, hit out Tuesday at what he calls “vaccine nationalism” and outlined those he believes should be vaccinated first against the coronavirus.
A senior World Health Organization (W.H.O.) expert on Monday declared that the novel coronavirus did not necessarily jump from animals into humans in Wuhan, China, where health officials detected the first clusters of the highly contagious and lethal disease.
The head of the China-influenced World Health Organization (W.H.O.) argued on Monday, amid the rush to discover an effective vaccine against the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, that there may never be a “silver bullet” for the lethal and contagious disease.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Saturday warned the coronavirus pandemic will be “lengthy” and lockdowns alongside enforced isolation will be a fact of life for some time after its emergency committee met to evaluate its own bungled initial response to the crisis.
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday reported comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo challenging his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation from tackling the coronavirus pandemic.
The Secretary of State for the United States, Mike Pompeo, reportedly said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “bought” the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), adding that the Tedros’s leadership has resulted in “dead Britons” during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.), in a scientific brief released on Thursday, warned that the Chinese coronavirus can spread indoors — in poorly ventilated areas, particularly — through aerosol droplets.
A clearly distressed W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wiped tears from his eyes Thursday as he blasted a global “lack of leadership and solidarity” during the coronavirus crisis, pleading with world figures to unite and back his troubled organization.
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper branded America’s entry into the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) “the most successful investment that the US has ever made” and called President Donald Trump’s move to leave it on Tuesday “petty.”
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) issued an “updated timeline” of the coronavirus pandemic last week that admitted China did not issue an early warning about the rapidly spreading disease, contradicting previous statements by Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
The director of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced Monday that a team would be sent to China to investigate the origins of the deadly coronavirus, which quickly swept across the world.
The global coronavirus pandemic has been exacerbated by polititicisation, the World Health Organization’s director general said Monday, as he warned its effects will be felt “for decades to come.”
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, will deliver a virtual 2020 commencement speech at China’s Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) on June 21, the school announced this week.
A clearly frustrated World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned Monday the global Chinese coronavirus pandemic was “worsening” not receding, telling countries loosening lockdowns to observe active surveillance and tracing of their populations.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry dismissed leaked World Health Organization (W.H.O.) documents on Wednesday as “seriously inconsistent with facts” after the Associated Press revealed the agency had concerns that the Communist Party was hiding pivotal information on the Chinese coronavirus.
The Associated Press on Tuesday reported on leaked documents from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) that showed its officials were well aware China was withholding vital information about the coronavirus in January, even as W.H.O. leadership extravagantly praised China for its transparency.
NORCROSS, Georgia — Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News exclusively that China “let the world down” on the coronavirus pandemic, and that the Trump administration is developing plans to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for its actions.
The Chinese coronavirus has killed more than 342,000 people around the globe, decimated economies and laid waste to the hopes and dream of millions of people, yet the bungled response of World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to the crisis was warmly applauded Sunday by China’s Communist government.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that his organization “worked day and night to coordinate the global response” to the coronavirus pandemic, “providing technical advice, catalysing political solidarity, mobilising resources, coordinating resources and much more.”
The democratic government of Taiwan announced on Tuesday its twelfth day of no new Chinese coronavirus cases in the country and thirty-seventh day since identifying a documented domestic case.
President Donald Trump delivered a blunt ultimatum to the embattled World Health Organization late Monday night, warning it will permanently lose U.S. funding unless it commits to “major substantive improvements within the next 30 days.”
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a meeting of his agency’s governing body, the World Health Assembly (W.H.A.), on Monday that the coronavirus pandemic should teach the nations of the world “humility.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping announced during a speech to the World Health Assembly on Monday that China would partner with the United Nations to build a public health “global humanitarian response hub” in China to control future pandemic responses.
China’s foreign ministry on Monday dismissed as “premature” growing calls an independent investigation into the origins and spread of the deadly Chinese coronavirus, as nations prepare to canvas the possibility at this week’s World Health Assembly (WHA).
Australia’s demand for an investigation into the World Health Organization’s bungled response to the deadly Chinese coronavirus pandemic now has the backing of 62 nations, all willing to support a draft resolution addressing the issue Tuesday at a meeting of the World Health Assembly.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is “shaken” by the U.S. decision to freeze funding for the agency for not doing enough to stem the spread of the coronavirus when it first surfaced in China, Reuters reported Friday.
China’s state-run Global Times newspaper warned on Wednesday that, should pressure on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to include Taiwan become successful, the Communist Party may be forced to solve “the Taiwan question once and for all via non-peaceful means.”
The World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) top legal officer claimed on Monday that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the agency, has no power to invite Taiwan to this month’s World Health Assembly, despite widespread pressure on the group to do so.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel published a report this weekend stating that German intelligence officials believed Chinese dictator Xi Jinping personally asked the head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to delay key warnings about the Chinese coronavirus.