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23 May 2022
reports · high · dan friesen · 00:14:31
#684: May 20, 2022
A proposed amendment to international health regulations allows the WHO director general to determine a health emergency without the agreement of the state where it is active.
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This proposed amendment would change how the director general of the WHO determines a health emergency. Previously, the director general and the state. where the pandemic is thought to be active would need to agree on the fact that there is a health emergency before the World Health Organization could make a determination. Now, now the state party is not required to agree that there's a health emergency.