The U.S. Rejoins W.H.O.

Keith Gilges

The Biden Administration also announced that the U.S. is joining the World Health Organization in the fight against the deadly coronavirus. Keith Gilges of the U.S. Embassy in Belize says that the COVID-19 pandemic is the number one priority of the new U.S. administration, and they will be partnering with experts to win the battle.

Keith Gilges, Chargé d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy in Belize

“We need the federal government to work with the states, we need the states to work with local governments; we need to work with our partners overseas, we need to work with multilateral organizations. We are in a race against time; so it is a competition. Can we get enough of the vaccine out and enough people vaccinated before the more viral inversions of COVID spread? So anything we can do to buy time to give those vaccines a chance to take effect, to increase community immunity in countries around the world, in the United States in particular because we have so many cases right now, is part of it. So saying that we are going to work with W.H.O. to be effective – absolutely, that is a priority of this administration to rebuild those alliances, to rebuild those partnerships to say we do it better when we do it together.”