general, the secretary general, mr ghebreyesus, is former health minister in ethiopia.politicians to end up doing thisjob, and he's obviously got a medical background as well. i wonder if there's a danger that mitigates against a willingness to be potentially confrontational when it comes to the crunch. this is such a big issue that actually a bit of banging heads together might sometimes be necessary. the world health organization is a political organisation. it's an organisation made of member states, of 194 member states. so it is a political organisation. there's a technical response category within who, and that technical response capacity has been moving forward steadily since the beginning of the outbreak has been announced. in 2003, working at the world health organization, you lead the response to sars. is it of the same family as covid—i9 broadly? it's a similar sort of respiratory infection? absolutely, it's the same type of virus. however, the sars coronavirus, from understanding about the virus, is low in the respiratory system. this coronavirus, covid—i9,