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Australia's Health Minister @GregHuntMP says Australia's response was 'swift' and has contained outbreak to around 7k cases. No country can deal with this alone and thank the EU for co-sponsoring the resolution.

Hunt "We are pleased to have support for an impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation of the global response." #WHA73

Hunt: "We need to learn the lessons from this pandemic and ensure we have the strongest possible global health architecture, with an enhanced ability to prevent and respond to future outbreaks." #WHA73

Hunt: "This could include an examination of whether the WHO’s mandate and powers, including around inspection." #WHA73

Sharpest language from China and Australia so far. #WHA73

United States: We support an independent review of WHO's response to the pandemic. #WHA73

US is blasting China and WHO. #WHA73

US: "We must be frank about why one of the primary reasons this outbreak spun out of control. There was a failure but this organisation (@WHO) to obtain the information that the world needed and that failure cost many lives." #WHA73