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EU: WHO should have more power to investigate outbreaks

by Maria Cheng
| October 30, 2020 7:27 AM

LONDON (AP) — European countries are calling for the World Health Organization to be given greater powers to independently investigate outbreaks and compel countries to provide more data, after the devastating coronavirus pandemic highlighted the agency's numerous shortcomings.

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