Dismantling WHO won't solve COVID-19: Agency's pandemic specialist

Nahoko Shindo says it's too soon to relax restrictions based on antibody tests

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World Health Organization Senior Adviser Nahoko Shindo speaks to Nikkei in Geneva. (Photo by Rintaro Hosokawa)

RINTARO HOSOKAWA, Nikkei staff writer

GENEVA -- Eighteen years ago, Nahoko Shindo was brought into the World Health Organization to fight pandemics. Since then, her battle experience includes fighting SARS, avian influenza, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the deadly viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Africa, and more recently, the 2009 influenza pandemic.

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