Australia is backing the regional offices of the World Health Organisation while criticising Geneva amid new revelations about its mishandling of the coronavirus crisis
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The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that the WHO was frustrated in January by the level of detail it was receiving out of China in the early days of the outbreak. At one stage, officials at the UN health body were quoted as being briefed only 15 minutes before key information was being shared with Chinese state media.Despite this, the WHO continued to praise China's leadership in public in a bid to solicit more information.
Dr Kamradt-Scott, who has worked with the WHO in Geneva and is now at the University of Sydney, said the WHO was the sum of its parts, and many of its problems have been inflicted by its member states. He said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was a politician who "would learn not to come out and praise members quite so readily before the evidence is clear".
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