The Covid-19 pandemic was preventable, an independent review panel has said.
The panel, set up by the World Health Organization, said the combined response of the WHO and global governments was a toxic cocktail .
The WHO should have declared a global emergency earlier than it did, its report said, adding that without urgent change the world was vulnerable to another major disease outbreak.
More than 3.3 million people around the world have now died of Covid.
While the US and Europe are beginning to ease restrictions and resume some aspects of pre-pandemic life, the virus is still devastating parts of Asia.
World could have prevented COVID catastrophe, says independent global panel IPPPR
The scale of the coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel has said. A toxic cocktail of waiting and poor coordination cost many people their lives
World could have prevented COVID catastrophe
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The catastrophic scale of the coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded on Wednesday.
A combination of dithering and poor coordination provided a toxic cocktail which hastened the spread of the virus that has cost well over three million lives, the independent global panel said.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) explained that a series of bad decisions resulted in the fact that Covid-19 went on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far and devastate the global economy, reported AFP
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A health worker tries to adjust the oxygen mask of a patient at the BKC jumbo field hospital, one of the largest COVID-19 facilities in Mumbai, India on May 6, 2021. (Photo: AP/Rafiq Maqbool)
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GENEVA: The catastrophic scale of the COVID-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded Wednesday (May 12), but a toxic cocktail of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) said a series of bad decisions meant COVID-19 went on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far and devastate the global economy.
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The catastrophic scale of the COVID-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded Wednesday, but a “toxic cocktail” of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) said a series of bad decisions meant COVID-19 went on to kill at least 3.3 million people so far and devastate the global economy.
Institutions “failed to protect people” and science-denying leaders eroded public trust in health interventions, the IPPPR said in its long-awaited final report.
Early responses to the outbreak detected in
Wuhan, China in December 2019 “lacked urgency”, with February 2020 a costly “lost month” as countries failed to heed the alarm, said the panel.