A petition calling on the resignation of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), has received over a million signatures.
The petition was created by an anonymous activist in Taiwan, and states that Ghebreyesus had underestimated the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, and did not declare the outbreak a global health emergency, resulting in nearly 200,000 deaths and infecting over 2.7 million people worldwide.
“We strongly think Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is not fit for his role as WHO Director-General. We call for the immediate resignation of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,” the petition reads.
“A lot of us are really disappointed, we believe WHO is supposed to be [politically neutral],” the petition reads, stating that without an investigation into the outbreak, Ghebreyesus solely relied on data from the Chinese communist regime.
Fox News also reported that Ghebreyesus was accused of allowing the Chinese regime to underreport the number of infected and deaths, and as a result, the alleged numbers that the Chinese regime had supplied the WHO with did not allow other countries around the world to adequately equip themselves with the proper protection against the outbreak.
On April 9, a group of Republicans from the House Oversight Committee wrote a letter to Ghebreyesus calling on him to disclose the nature of his relationship with officials in the Chinese regime.
“Throughout the crisis, the WHO has shied away from placing any blame on the Chinese government, which is in essence the Communist Party of China. You, as leader of the WHO, even went so far as to praise the Chinese government’s ‘transparency’ during the crisis, when, in fact, the regime has consistently lied to the world by underreporting their actual infection and death statistics,” the letter read.
The Epoch Times reported that Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) had also called on Ghebreyesus to resign, accusing him of covering up for the Chinese Communist Party’s manipulation of data.
“Their cover-up of this virus that originated with them has caused unnecessary deaths around America and the world,” McSally said on April 2.
“The WHO needs to stop covering for them. I think Dr. Tedros needs to step down. We need to take some action to address this issue. It’s just irresponsible, it’s unconscionable what they have done here while we have people dying across the globe,” McSally said.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) also said the WHO Director-General had hidden the actual situation in China.
“They need to be held accountable for their role in promoting misinformation and helping communist China cover up a global pandemic,” Scott said. “We know communist China is lying about how many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew—and the WHO never bothered to investigate further. Their inaction cost lives.”
