WHO director-general vows to continue fighting the coronavirus

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is shown standing at a wooden podium with the blue WHO flag next to him and wearing a blue-print button down short-sleeved shirt.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus closed the WHO’s two-day annual assembly vowing to continue to lead the fight against the pandemic “which threatens to tear at the fabric of international cooperation.” And, a super cyclone is set to hit India and Bangladesh Wednesday. Millions of people are being evacuated all while the countries face the coronavirus crisis. Also, the long-running pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong went quiet at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. But now that the Chinese territory is beginning to open up, the political fight is back.

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