Italy 'misled WHO on pandemic readiness' weeks before Covid outbreak

Preparations not reviewed since 2006 but self-reporting in February 2020 claimed they were at highest levelCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageItaly allegedly misled the World Health Organization (WHO) on its readiness to face a pandemic less than three weeks before the country’s first locally transmitted coronavirus case was confirmed.Each year, countries bound by the International Health Regulations (IHR) – an international treaty to combat the global