Coronavirus: WHO should change rules that led it to oppose travel restrictions, ex-head says

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GENEVA (REUTERS) - The World Health Organization should change guidelines that led it to oppose travel restrictions early in the coronavirus epidemic, said former WHO chief Gro Harlem Brundtland, who now chairs an independent watchdog that monitors the global body.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

GENEVA - The World Health Organization should change guidelines that led it to oppose travel restrictions early in the coronavirus epidemic, said former WHO chief Gro Harlem Brundtland, who now chairs an independent watchdog that monitors the global body.

Brundtland, speaking to a briefing on Friday , strongly opposed the US decision to quit the WHO. But she acknowledged a need to look at the guidelines, known as the International Health Regulations, agreed by member states years earlier and which discourage restricting trade and travel during epidemics.

She said some governments had worried that the threat of travel restrictions would cause countries not to report outbreaks. "I think it's right to say that China had maybe learned something from the SARS experience where they really closed down and refused to speak to the WHO and even to me as director-general when I had to enter in," Brundtland said.

 

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