Wash your hands, maintain social distance, and above all “Test, test, test”. There are three of them, every day at 5.30 p.m., two meters apart, lined up behind a desk at the end of a very long meeting room, which is deserted because it is forbidden to access. There is the director general, the Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, patron of the institution for three years, flanked by the Irishman Michael Ryan, executive director for health emergencies and all-terrain veteran of virological crises, and the American epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove, technical director of the emergency program. The three of them are giving the same injunctions to 300 journalists from all over the world, taped by videoconference. Welcome to the World Health Organization (WHO) virtual press point, the only way now to access officials of the UN agency, at the heart of the most serious global health crisis since the Spanish flu of 1918-1919.
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Serge Enderlin Correspondent in Geneva
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