Geneva, Jan 19 : A latest interim report by a WHO pandemic review panel has highlighted effective multilateralism in the preparation and response to the
An independent panel has slammed China and the World Health Organisation (WHO) for early shortcomings in the initial response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Nationwide rollouts began in Brazil and Azerbaijan, while Britain and France widened inoculations to all elderly people. Agence France-Presse January 19, 2021 10:36:38 IST A medical worker inoculates a doctor with a Covid-19 vaccine in Ahmedabad. AFP
Countries around the world stepped up their coronavirus vaccine campaigns Monday, with Russia offering jabs to all citizens, while an independent probe found fault with the early response to the pandemic. Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and Beijing could have acted faster when COVID-19 first surfaced in China a year ago, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response concluded in a report. It added that countries where the virus was likely to spread should have put containment measures in place immediately.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Monday the world is "on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure" because of unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution.Why it.