Did WHO fail the world on COVID-19?

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DUBAI: In April 2004, the SARS-CoV virus escaped not once, but twice from a Chinese lab. Back then, the WHO unabashedly criticised the lab’s safeguards, or the lack of it. At that time, a 26-year-old female postgraduate student and a 31-year-old post-doctoral male, who both worked for the Chinese Institute of Virology (CIV) in Beijing, part of China's Center for Disease Control, were reportedly infected on separate occasions, WHO spokesman Bob Dietz in Beijing told The Scientist. The WHO made the twin incidents public almost immediately, unconcerned about Chinese official reaction: at a news conference on April 25, 2004, WHO Western Pacific Regional Director Shigeru Omi openly criticised the...

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