WHO director-general ‘pained’ by racist cartoon of Omicron coming from SA

World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that caricaturing people crammed in a boat taking a virus to Europe was disgusting. File photo.World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it pains him that shows of racism, like the recent cartoon depicting SA spreading the Omicron variant of the coronavirus to Europe, “still plague the challenges facing the world today”.

On Monday evening Ghebreyesus tweeted that caricaturing people crammed in a boat taking a virus to Europe was “disgusting”.It pains me that shows of racism like this still plague the challenges facing the world today.We can only advance, as one 🌍 community, by promoting solidarity, not stigma.

The all covid thing is very stupid

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Do the human rights abuses in China pain him? I suspect not.

It's not racism it's bullshit, African artists should do the same

Now imagine if covid was first detected from SA or anywhere in Africa they would have shut us out

Please cant dis pple leave us alone,aowa maan!.Matamla must take his pple

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