Covid 19 coronavirus: Helen Clark - rapid action needed to stop this pandemic and avert the next
12 May, 2021 10:00 AM
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A health worker administers the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine to a resident of the Klong Toey area of Bangkok in Thailand, a neighbourhood which has seen a spike in coronavirus cases. Photo / AP
A health worker administers the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine to a resident of the Klong Toey area of Bangkok in Thailand, a neighbourhood which has seen a spike in coronavirus cases. Photo / AP
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OPINION: By Helen Clark, review co-chair
In July last year, the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) asked the former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and me to be the co-chairs of a review of the international health response to Covid-19.
UK to Set Up Inquiry Into Government’s Handling of CCP Virus Pandemic
An inquiry into the government’s handling of the CCP virus pandemic will begin in spring 2022, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.
Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Johnson said the government will set up an independent public inquiry that will have “full powers under the Inquiries Act of 2005, including the ability to compel the production of all relevant materials, and take oral evidence in public, under oath.”
Johnson told MPs that the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove had spoken to the first ministers and deputy first ministers of the devolved nations and that the government would consult the devolved administrations before finalising the scope and detailed arrangements of the inquiry.
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Originally published on May 12, 2021 5:51 pm
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed dangerous failings on the national and international scale, according to an independent review ordered by the World Health Organization. The review found a range of problems, from a slow initial reaction to the coronavirus to weak links at every point in the chain of preparedness and response.
The coronavirus found a world vulnerable to the worst effects of a pandemic despite warnings from experts and a string of recent global health threats, from SARS and Ebola to Zika, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said.
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New York, NY, May 12, 2021 COVID-19 vaccine distribution has been largely concentrated in higher income countries, despite dire need in conflict-affected areas as more transmissible COVID-19 variants drive up cases and intensify pressure on already strained health systems.Inequitable vaccine access has seen the US, UK and the EU each pre-purchase enough approved COVID-19 doses to vaccinate their populations more than twice over; excess doses could vaccinate people aged 16 and over of all 20 of the IRC’s 2021 Emergency Watchlist countries.
With the release of the final report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, the IRC is calling for G7 and G20 countries to commit excess vaccine doses and funding to crisis-affected countries.
Wednesday, 12 May 2021 08:46 PM MYT
The variant stoking the country’s surge has now been detected in dozens of other countries across the globe.. Reuters pic
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GENEVA, May 12 An expert panel today blamed bad coordination as well as dithering by national governments and international organisations for the failure to tackle Covid-19 before it became a full-blown pandemic, as India’s death toll topped 250,000.
With a record 4,205 deaths in the past 24 hours in India, the variant stoking the country’s surge has now been detected in dozens of other countries across the globe.