Pandemic review panel named, includes Miliband, ex Mexican president


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Sep 2020

FILE PHOTO: International Rescue Committee CEO David Miliband testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing titled "The Humanitarian Impact of Eight Years of War in Syria" in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 1, 2019. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - Members of an independent panel examining how the World Health Organization and countries handled the COVID-19 pandemic were named on Thursday, including former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and Britain's former foreign secretary David Miliband.

Co-chairs of the panel, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, issued the list of the other 11 members.

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