(Reuters) – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, plans to run for a second five-year term as the head of the agency, Stat News reported https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/03/tedros-second-term on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Ethiopia’s Tedros, as he is widely known, in 2017 became the first African to head the Geneva-based United Nations agency and made universal health care coverage his priority.
It is unclear at this point whether others will emerge to challenge Tedros, the Stat report said.
The WHO did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
(Reporting by Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)
