WHO says it acted 'quickly and decisively' on new coronavirus
“We sounded the alarm early and we sounded it often”
The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) defended the body's record in its response to the new coronavirus in a news briefing on Wednesday.
"From the beginning, the WHO has acted quickly and decisively to respond to warn the world," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said after giving a timeline of what the body knew in the lead-up to declaring Covid-19 a global emergency on Jan. 30.
"We sounded the alarm early and we sounded it often," he said, adding: "WHO is committed to transparency and accountability."