{"id":10550,"date":"2021-01-19T23:36:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118413\/coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-whos-chernobyl-moment-reform-review"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:36:39","slug":"coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-whos-chernobyl-moment-for-reform-review-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-whos-chernobyl-moment-for-reform-review-panel-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus pandemic could be WHO\u2019s \u2018Chernobyl moment\u2019 for reform, review panel says"},"content":{"rendered":"The Covid-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at the UN nuclear agency, an independent review panel said on Tuesday.The panel, set up to investigate the global response to the coronavirus, said the WHO is underpowered, underfunded and required fundamental reform to give it the resources it needs to respond more effectively to deadly disease outbreaks.\u201cWe are not here to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118413\/coronavirus-pandemic-could-be-whos-chernobyl-moment-reform-review\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at the UN nuclear agency, an independent review panel said on Tuesday.The panel, se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10551,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}