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GoaChronicle questions Dr Tedros at WHO Press Briefing: Would you have called Coronavirus a pandemic earlier?

By Savio Rodrigues

23/04/2020

Savio Rodrigues

Margao: Accepting the invitation of the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to ask a question during the WHO media briefing today, GoaChronicle.com Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Savio Rodrigues questioned:

Question: Dr Tedros, if you had an opportunity to rewind last couple weeks of your life during the coronavirus pandemic and look the decisions taken by the World Health Organisation (WHO), would you have called the coronavirus a pandemic earlier than it did much later?