WHO special envoy on Covid-19 ‘extremely worried’ about rise in cases worldwide
13 July 2020 |
9:10 am
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Dr. David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's special envoy on coronavirus, said he was "extremely worried" about the rising number of Covid-19 cases worldwide. Nabarro urged world leaders to "take this virus seriously" and said it was "hard to understand" why the Trump administration had decided to pull the US out of the WHO in the midst of the pandemic.
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