World Health Organisation DG Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it pains him that shows of racism, like the recent cartoon depicting SA spreading the Omicron variant to Europe, “still plague the challenges facing the world today”.
World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that caricaturing people crammed in a boat taking a virus to Europe was disgusting. File photo.World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it pains him that shows of racism, like the recent cartoon depicting SA spreading the Omicron variant of the coronavirus to Europe, “still plague the challenges facing the world today”.
On Monday evening Ghebreyesus tweeted that caricaturing people crammed in a boat taking a virus to Europe was “disgusting”.It pains me that shows of racism like this still plague the challenges facing the world today.We can only advance, as one 🌍 community, by promoting solidarity, not stigma.
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