UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan urged the international community on Sunday to ensure early and equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines as all nations do not have the resources to defeat the pandemic.
“It is painfully obvious that developing countries lack essential financial resources to build up their health systems to deal with such a global disaster,” said Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Munir Akram.
The United Nations commemorated the first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday to emphasise the need to make greater investments in preparedness to confront this and future health emergencies.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also underlined this point in his message, noting that the world community was observing this day at the end of a year in which a scenario many had feared came tragically true. “As we strive to control and recover from the current pandemic, we must think about the next,” he said.
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27 december 2020 - 19:45:24 AR Panafrican News Agency
World must be ready for the next pandemic, UN says on first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The United Nations commemorated the first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday, underscoring the need to learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic, and urging greater investments in preparedness, to confront future health emergencies
Highlights
WHO chief on Saturday said that the COVID-19 crisis will not be the last pandemic.
Tedros said all steps taken to improve human health are doomed if we fail to tackle climate change and animal welfare.
Tedros that people are following dangerously short-sighted method of using money to control outbreaks.
In a significant announcement, World Health Organizations (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday (December 26) said that the COVID-19 crisis will not be the last pandemic and all steps taken to improve human health are doomed if the global community fails to tackle climate change and animal welfare.
In a video message marking first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday, the WHO chief said that people are following dangerously short-sighted method of using money to control outbreaks but are not doing anything to prepare for the next one.