Coronavirus: WHO asks president Biya to speak up on pandemic

17 Avril 2020

Paris, France, April  17 (Infosplusgabon) – The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has asked Cameroonian President Paul Biya to speak up on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, telling him that his "political commitment" to the fight against the disease is "indispensable".

"Your Excellency, your personal commitment is necessary to mobilise communities and strengthen efforts of a societal movement against the COVID-19," he said in a letter to the President.

"Your choice and presence through the intermediary of the main means of communication and the orientation on factual bases and clear vision of measures to take, which you can give by regularly addressing the nation, will have an inestimable value," Dr. Tedros said in his letter to the Cameroonian president.

The four-page letter enumerated to the Cameroonian president the series of actions undertaken by WHO to overcome the health crisis and suggested to him the coordination and practical strategy in the implementation measures which many counties have already adopted.

"The virus knows no borders or political differences and the decisions made in the country can have consequences on the response efforts all over the world. The politicization of the pandemic or excessive optimism in the response of a country can be insurmountable obstacle in the fight against the virus – at both the national and international levels," the WHO Director General told President Biya.

The Cameroonian president, who is at his home village of Mvomeka’a, is among the rare, if not the only president, who has not addressed his compatriots since the beginning of the health crisis as his country records more than 700 cases.

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