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![WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Swiss Federal Councillor, Alain Berset, signed an agreement in relation to the BioHub on the edges of the World Health Assembly yesterday [May 24] © WHO/Christopher Black](/var/wrbm_gb_food_pharma/storage/images/_aliases/news_teaser_medium/publications/pharmaceutical-science/biopharma-reporter.com/article/2021/05/26/new-switzerland-hub-for-pathogen-storage-sharing-and-analysis/12512537-4-eng-GB/New-Switzerland-hub-for-pathogen-storage-sharing-and-analysis.jpg)
