Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Canada remains 'open' to reviewing that actions of the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
OTTAWA -- Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Canada remains "open" to reviewing that actions of the World Health Organization in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We need to make sure…that we're being critical about the institutions that serve us internationally and that we look for ways as we move forward to improve our work together and improve our capacity to prevent pandemics like this," she later added. that the U.S. intelligence community warned its administration in a classified report that China had "concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country."
"When we began to get information coming out of China about the outbreak in Wuhan, we were entirely dependent on one stream of open source reporting, basically, and that reporting was coming from the Chinese authorities, controlled by the state, through the World Health Organization ," Wark said. However, speaking about the issue that same day, Canadian government officials defended the organization's record.
"I think, the WHO does consist of all of its member states, of which Canada is one, but it taps into the global community of scientists, researchers, epidemiologists," Tam said.
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