WHO chief pledges to learn lessons from coronavirus epidemic

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adanom Gebreisus, said he was ready for an open investigation into how well the organization had responded to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the WHO press centre on 18 May. Each country and organization should examine its responses and learn from its experience. WHO is committed to the principles of transparency, accountability and continuous improvement, Gebreisus said. According to the news agency, US President Donald Trump had previously frozen WHO funding on the pretext of the organization's insufficient response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Read also: