World ignored warnings, Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented: Report ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 07:58 IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 13 (ANI): The world had ignored warnings which resulted in the outbreak of COVID-19, and the international system could have prevented it from escalating into the devastating pandemic, an independent global panel concluded on Wednesday.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) in its report said, It is clear to the Panel that the world was not prepared and had ignored warnings which resulted in a massive failure: an outbreak of SARS-COV-2 became a devastating pandemic.
After analyzing the early response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the probe panel concluded that the international system could have been different, and prevented it from escalating into the devastating pandemic it became.