WHO chief Tedros confirmed for 2nd term
London: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was confirmed by the U.N. health agency's member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday.
No other candidate challenged Tedros for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating Coronavirus pandemic.
This is overwhelming, Tedros said, after another WHO official asked everyone in the room to stand and applaud him. Fighting back tears, Tedros described himself as a child of war.
He said that after witnessing his younger brother's death at an early age, it was luck (that) brought me all the way here." Tedros, a former government minister from Ethiopia, has directed the World Health Organisation throughout its management of the global response to COVID-19 and withstood occasionally withering criticism over its multiple missteps.
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