Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Director-general of the World Health Organization.
Notable Quotes
"the 'WHO considers the hantavirus outbreak over'"View Story →
"a contractor in Gaza was killed during a security incident, prompting the organisation to suspend medical evacuations from Gaza via Rafah to Egypt until further notice."View Story →
"While this is a serious incident, WHO assesses the public health risk as low."View Story →
"significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread"View Story →
"WHO assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels and low at the global level."View Story →
"We are now revising our risk assessment to very high at the national level, high at the regional level, and low at the global level."View Story →
"the risk in the wider region in Africa was 'high' but remained 'low' globally."View Story →
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