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Don’t mention the pandemic

14 February 2020

5:00 PM

14 February 2020

5:00 PM

The Woke Health Organisation – sorry, the World Health Organisation – continues to provide non-stop entertainment as the Coronavirus spreads. I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine but the WHO head honcho appears firmly convinced:

The World Health Organisation director-general has announced a new name for the fast-spreading coronavirus, as a senior WHO team visits Beijing on a crucial fact-finding mission.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former health and foreign minister in the Ethiopian government, has gone to great effort to maintain a good relationship with China, as he oversees the global response to the virus — now officially named Covid-19 —...

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