Helen Clark, who was New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008, said the World Health Organization has done 'quite a reasonable job' in coordinating the global health response.
The virus outbreak was first detected in
late last year and has infected more than 3.6 million people thus far. Many countries have taken stringent measures to slow the disease's spread in communities, often at the expense of short-term economic growth." on Wednesday that the World Health Organization has done "quite a reasonable job" in coordinating the global health response. She was New Zealand's prime minister from 1999 to 2008.
"I've actually been rather more disappointed in two other areas: One is the Security Council's failure to agree a resolution, declaring Covid-19 a threat to global peace and security," she said, referring to the disease caused by the coronavirus. "That was not only a health crisis causing people to die before their time was due, and many to be very ill, but it's a full-blown, full scale economic and social crisis.U.N.
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