A police checkpoint for the coronavirus in Milan, March 10, 2020.
For weeks, the World Health Organization resisted declaring the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, fearing that doing so would incite panic across the globe.
The basic idea was that the WHO would serve as a central coordinating body. Countries would notify the agency about outbreaks and share information to help scientists address an epidemic at the global level. The WHO would coordinate efforts on containment, declare emergencies and make recommendations. The revised regulation is legally binding and has been signed by 196 countries, including the United States.
“If there wasn’t a WHO, you’d have to invent it,” said Katz, who has studied health regulations for more than a decade. “They are in a bit of a tough spot because you know you have international law but then you also know that every nation is sovereign,” she said. Meanwhile, only 45 of the more than 70 countries who have adopted international travel restrictions have fulfilled the requirement to report their actions to the agency, a spokesman said.
“We can understand that governments have a primary responsibility to their own health workers,” said Dr. Michael Ryan, who heads the WHO’s health emergencies program.“The life of a health worker in one country is certainly as valued as the life of a health worker in another,” Ryan said Monday. In some cases, WHO officials only learned of travel shutdowns after they happened, from reports in the media.Because they have no power to enforce international regulations, WHO officials have to walk a diplomatic tightrope. In a statement, a WHO spokesman said that the agency “cannot compel countries to change measures they have implemented.”
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