Following the footstep of his counterpart Donald Trump, President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has warned to quit the World Health Organization (WHO) unless it ceases to be a “Partisan political organization.”
The president said “I tell you here, the United States left WHO, we are considering it in the future (…). Either WHO works without ideological bias, or we are leaving it too.”
“We don’t need outsiders to give their feelings about health here,” he told reporters in Brasilia.
All over the world, around 4,02,428 people had died because of the coronavirus Pandemic since it emerged last year in China. This pandemic affects every nation among those nations European countries are affected very much.
Brazil ranks third among the European countries with total deaths of around 36000, while this figure has crossed 1,00,000 in the USA.
Governments of all over the world are focused on resuscitating economies, which has declined due to the lockdown of several months.
Suspension of the clinical trial of the drug hydroxychloroquine –
Accusing WHO as the puppet of China, last month US President Donald Trump also announced to take back US membership from World health organization.
Mr. Bolsonaro criticized WHO for suspending clinical trial of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and warned to pull out of World health organization like US President Donald Trump.
Earlier the study published in The Lancet, can not answer the question of whether hydroxychloroquine can help the patient fight Covid-19 or not, and with the use of this drug the death cases increase or not. But a recent study found that those patients of Covid-19, treated with hydroxychloroquine drug had a higher risk of death than those who didn’t take it.
The WHO has also changed the guidelines on the face mask and asks to loosen the social distancing.WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said that a key criterion for lifting lockdowns was slowing transmission and asks to loosen the social distancing.
“The epidemic, the outbreak, in Latin America is deeply, deeply concerning,” she told a news conference in Geneva.
The positive cases all over the world are increasing every day. Coronavirus infected almost 6.7 million people and 4 lac deaths globally.
Every Nation is trying to recover from this pandemic after risking its economy into the deepest recession since the great depression of the 1930s.
This impacted even the country with the largest economy. The US with 1.9 million the highest number of COVID-19 positive cases and 1 lac death Mr. Trump is trying to bring the economy on the track again.
Mr. Trump also said the economy was bouncing back. “We had the greatest economy in the history of the world. And that strength let us get through this horrible pandemic, largely through, I think we’re doing really well,” he told reporters.