“It looks like they dragged their feet.” Public-health officials questioned why the World Health Organization didn’t move faster to declare a coronavirus emergency.
BEIJING—When the World Health Organization declared a global public-health emergency at the end of last month, it praised China’s “extraordinary” efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic and urged other countries not to restrict travel.
“China is actually setting a new standard for outbreak response,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
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