5 tests positive for COVID-19 at World Health Organization’s headquarters

The WHO has reported 65 cases of the coronavirus amongst staff based at its headquarters, including five individuals who worked on the bases and were in contact with one another, a leaked private email shows.

The UN health officials said it is reviewing how and where the five people became contaminated of the virus— and that it has not determined whether transmission arrived at its offices. WHO’s approval Monday of the figures in the email received by The Associated Press was the first time it has openly given such a count.

The email said about half of the diseases listed so far were in people who were doing all the work from home. But 32 were in staffers who had been operating from the headquarters hotel, where more than 2,000 people regularly work and the agency says it has put in place strict hygiene, screening and other limitation rules.

In the email, which was to staff on Friday, Raul Thomas, who heads selling services at WHO, continued that five people — four on the very team and one who had a connection with them— had tested positive for COVID-19. That could symbolise that basic infection control and social distancing methods in place may have been broken.

“We have had some events that have been associated with the bases. We do have some incidents in the last week that are connected together,” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s the technical lead on COVID-19, passed on Monday at the same press gathering.

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Two weeks ago, Van Kerkhove had declared there had been no news at posts to that point but added that the agency was seeing it.