FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask sits, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, with luggage at the Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak train station in New Rochelle, New York, U.S., November 20, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit by residents of a suburban New York City county who accused the World Health Organization of gross negligence in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel on Monday said the WHO was immune under its own 1948 constitution and the International Organization Immunities Act from the proposed class-action lawsuit by the seven Westchester County plaintiffs.
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