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Coronavirus: what has the World Health Organization done wrong?

Trump pulls funding for agency over accusations of ‘cover-ups and failures’

by James Ashford

16 Apr 2020

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WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says its work will carry on ‘uninterrupted’

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