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58 Nations, Including India Demand Evaluation of WHO's Response Towards #COVID19Pandemic

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The European Union-led draft resolution on global #COVID19 response is set to be tabled at the upcoming World Health Assembly on Monday.

The draft resolution demands initiation "at the earliest appropriate moment to review experience gained and lessons learned from the WHO-coordinated international health response to #COVID19".

"We are deeply concerned by the morbidity and mortality caused by COVID19 pandemic, the negative impacts on physical and mental health and social well-being, the negative impacts on economy and society and the consequent exacerbation of inequalities within and between countries"

"We express solidarity to all countries affected by the pandemic, as well as condolences and sympathy to all the families of the victims of COVID-19," it added.

The resolution says timelines are to be evaluated regarding "recommendations the WHO made to improve global pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response capacity".

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The WHO on January 23 announced a global health emergency, but did not declared it and waited for a week for director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to return from China. By that time, #COVID19 cases increased 10 times and the virus entered 18 countries.

According to Health Policy Watch, till as late as February, the WHO did not support countries for imposing travel restrictions to China. "When countries began evacuating their citizens from Wuhan, the #COVID19 epicentre, the WHO said it did not favour this step".

The @WHO finally declared it a pandemic on March 11. The global health body has come under criticism not just from the US for its response being "China-centric".

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