WHO Calls for Solidarity

Geneva, 18 May 2020 - The French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the first virtual World Health Assembly from his offices in France, where he insisted on the importance of global solidarity to defeat the COVID19 pandemic. Macron also announced that the EU would drop new funding in the coffers of the World Health Organisation, the UN health agency.

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, called country-members to task, by praising the solidarity that some have showed and expressing concern for the divergent approaches to and responses that, in his view, have exacerbated the COVID19 crisis.

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, par contre, has not minced words when addressing the World Health Organization annual ministerial-level meeting prefacing that "COVID-19 has tragically taken hundreds of thousands of lives, impacted millions of people, and done deep damage to the world economy.", and then stating flatly that "one of the primary reasons this outbreak spun…