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WHO chief Tedros blasts Pompeo for ‘untrue and unacceptable’ China comments

By Zach Halaschak
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WHO chief Tedros blasts Pompeo for ‘untrue and unacceptable’ China comments

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is pushing back after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed the WHO had been co-opted by China.

Tedros and other WHO officials said Thursday that Pompeo’s assertion that China has taken advantage of the global body were not true and that the WHO’s only focus is saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, which first began in China.

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