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Tedros called on countries to "open up" and show the review team "everything as an open book", and pledged the WHO would do the same.He suggested the review must look at national surveillance and response systems, how information was shared, whether health organisations had lost public trust and "whether our global health architecture is fit for purpose" - a possible concession that the WHO may need to be restructured.
"This is not a standard report that ticks a box and is then put on a shelf to gather dust. This is something we take seriously."The Australian government's confidence in the WHO has fallen during the pandemic, while US President Donald Trump this week formally started the process of withdrawing America's membership after accusing the body of bias towards China.
"Its toxic geopolitics have stopped it doing anything useful at all," Clark said of the powerful Security Council in May. "But it needs member states to follow its advice, it needs member states like China to report very rapidly when they detect there is a new virus on the move which could cause a pandemic, and of course neither of these two things happened."
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