GENEVA — Corrupt practices around medical safety gear for COVID-19 health workers is tantamount to “murder,” World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday as he warned that it may take at least two years until the world sees the pandemic’s end. “Any type of corruption is unacceptable,” Tedros said at an online news conference. “However, corruption related to PPE (personal protective equipment) … for me it’s actually murder. Because if health workers work without PPE, we’re risking their lives. “It’s criminal and it’s murder and it has to stop,” Tedros said as he estimated that it would take around two years before the world could rein in the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 22, 2020 21:11 UTC