The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned world leaders to not politicize the response to COVID-19, saying doing so will lead to more deaths.
Yesterday while addressing a press conference, Tedros said politicians should desist from using the virus to score political points.
“At the end of the day, the people belong to all political parties. The focus of all political parties should be to save their people. Please don’t politicize this virus,” Tedros said.
“If you don’t want many more body bags, then you refrain from politicizing it,” he added.
Tedros said the so far lost lives are saddening enough, “We will have many body bags in front of us if we don’t behave,” he said. “For God’s sake, we have lost more than 60,000 citizens of the world – is this not enough?”
The WHO has been criticized for its decision not to call COVID-19 a pandemic until March 11, long after many experts suggested it should do so.