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		</div><p>The European Union and other countries have called for an independent evaluation of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) response to the coronavirus pandemic “<i>to review experience gained and lessons learned”</i>.</p>
<p>The resolution has the support of more than half of the WHO’s member countries and will be discussed this week at the decision-making body of the UN health agency, being held virtually this year.</p>
<p>The proposal is intended to initiate <i>“a stepwise process of impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation”</i> of the WHO’s efforts to coordinate the international response to Covid-19, including the functioning of international health law and its actions within the greater UN health system.</p>
<p>The move comes amid Australia’s call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the pandemic and the WHO’s response to it — and after US President Donald Trump’s repeated accusations that the WHO helped China cover up the extent of the initial Covid-19 outbreak.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The World Health Assembly <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHA73?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WHA73</a> starts today.</p>
<p>Health leaders are convening virtually for the first time this year, due to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a>. </p>
<p>Watch it LIVE here from 12:00 CEST.<a href="https://t.co/3LcaLDToH9">https://t.co/3LcaLDToH9</a></p>
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<p>Mr Trump has also called for an immediate halt to all US funding to the UN health agency.</p>
<p>The EU resolution proposes that the independent evaluation should be initiated <i>“at the earliest appropriate moment”</i> and should, among other issues, examine “<i>the actions of the WHO and their timelines pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic”.</i></p>
<p>The WHO announced the coronavirus outbreak to be a global health emergency on January 30, its highest level of alert. In the following weeks, the WHO warned countries there was a narrowing “<i>window of opportunity</i>” to prevent the virus from spreading globally.</p>
<p>WHO officials, however, repeatedly described the transmission of the virus as “<i>limited</i>” and said it was not as transmissible as flu; experts have since said Covid-19 spreads even faster.</p>
<p>It declared the outbreak to be a pandemic on March 11, after the virus had killed thousands globally and sparked large epidemics in South Korea, Italy, Iran and elsewhere.</p>
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