The World Health Organization will conduct an independent evaluation of the global coronavirus response, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus promised
But the WHO’s chief critic, the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump, decried an “apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak by at least one member state”.
Health Secretary Alex Azar did not mention China by name, but made clear Washington considered the WHO jointly responsible. The amount almost matches the WHO’s entire annual programme budget for last year, and more than compensates for Trump’s freeze of U.S. payments worth about $400 million a year. Tedros, who has always promised a review, told the forum it would come “at the earliest appropriate moment” and make recommendations for the future. He received robust backing from the WHO’s independent oversight panel.
The panel endorsed a review but said conducting it now could hamper the WHO’s response to the pandemic.
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