The WHO had two reactions to this controversy: 1) Blocking - in the midst of the crisis - access to the information generated by its real time monitoring system regarding the infected and deceased in each country, which was previously available to everyone on its website (one of the corner stones of the WHO's infectious alerts system), and stop publishing its epidemic evolution world maps, and 2) A meeting of the Committee of Experts that advises the WHO was convened, in which the
phase 6 of the protocol was reassessed.