WHO chief hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro, report says

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus address a press conference on the Marburg virus outbreak, in Kigali

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been hospitalized in Rio de Janeiro’s Hospital Samaritano Barra da Tijuca, local newspaper O Globo reported on Thursday.

Tedros sought “the hospital with symptoms of labyrinthitis and an hypertensive crisis,” after first showing signs of being unwell on Monday at the sidelines of the G20 summit.

(Reporting by Luana Maria Benedito; Editing by Bernadette Baum)