The World Health Organisation's Director General said countries should avoid politicising the virus issue 'if you don't want to have many more body bags'.
The World Health Organisation's Director General has responsed to US President Donald Trump's criticism of the organisation, saying countries should avoid politicising the virus issue "if you don't want to have many more body bags".
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference on Wednesday that "the focus of all political parties should be to save their people." He said the WHO's stance was that even strong countries would be in more crisis without unifying.
"We want to look at the World Health Organisation because they called it wrong," Trump said on Tuesday. "They called it wrong. They missed the call. They could have called it months earlier. They would have known. They should have known, and they probably did know, so we'll be looking into that very carefully."
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