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.
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It added that the catastrophe could have been prevented
NEW DELHI: A global panel of experts has said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the COVID-19 an emergency very late and the catastrophe caused by the deadly virus across the globe could have been prevented.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) said a series of bad decisions by the WHO meant COVID-19 went on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far and devastate the global economy.
The panel called for bold WHO reforms and revitalising national preparedness plans to prevent another toxic cocktail . It further suggested that a new transparent global system should be set up for probing disease outbreaks.
Death and illness from Covid-19 is steadily rising once again. In the last week of April, more than 93,000 people died – approaching the worst of the global second wave. How can this still be happening? How can some countries still be experiencing wave after wave of infection when we know how to prevent them? For the past eight months, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response has been rigorously reviewing the evidence of what.