Calling the preparation “inconsistent and underfunded” and the World Health Organization (WHO) “under-powered”, the panel’s report recommends a series of immediate measures to prevent future viral outbreaks becoming pandemics.
A global plan
“Co-ordinated, global leadership was absent” in preparing for and responding to Covid-19, the IPPPR says, with “global tensions” getting in the way of effective cooperation.
A unified approach to testing, tracing and vaccine rollout could improve the international community’s response to and management of a virus with pandemic potential. However, “all of this relies on a global effort in a world that is currently witnessing the extent to which countries are only out for themselves, in the scramble for coronavirus jabs”, The Telegraph’s Jennifer Rigby has said.
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COVID pandemic was preventable, independent panel set up by WHO finds Pandemic could have been declared Public Health Emergency of International Concern earlier, says panel
2021-05-12 17:51:35
GENEVA
The COVID-19 pandemic could have been averted and could have been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern sooner than it was, an independent panel investigating the global pandemic said Wednesday.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response called on the global community to take stronger action to end the COVID-19 pandemic and adopt reforms to prevent the next crisis. It is a disaster which our panel believes could have been averted, said co-chair Helen Clark, also the former prime minister of New Zealand.