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A panel convened by the World Health Organization to look at what lessons could be learnt from the Covid pandemic has recommended that high-income countries do more to help low-income countries.
Richer countries should give $19 billion to fund access to vaccines and treatments in poorer countries, and give 1 billion doses by September, The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response has said.
But so far the pledges from richer countries are not big enough , says the panel s co-chair Helen Clark, and meanwhile under-vaccinated countries with Covid outbreaks are seeing spikes in death tolls.
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has highlighted the need for a global treaty on pandemic
preparedness and response, urging countries to “seize the
moment” and support its development.
Dr.
Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the agency’s Emergencies
Programme, delivered opening
remarks at a UN General Assembly meeting on Wednesday
where ambassadors were briefed by the Independent Panel for
Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR).
He
spoke on behalf of the WHO Director
General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Strengthen
global health security
Dr. Ryan said one of the major
gaps exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic
has been the lack of international solidarity and sharing,
including sharing of pathogen data and epidemiological
By Patrick Goodenough | July 29, 2021 | 4:18am EDT
A security guard stands near the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, a facility at the center of controversy over the theory that the coronarivus may have leaked accidentally from a lab. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The politically-charged dispute over the origins of COVID-19 spilled over at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, with the U.S. accusing China trying to “undermine” the investigation and Beijing’s envoy retorting that the U.S. was smearing China in a bid to deflect attention from “its botched response to the pandemic.”
An expert independent panel monitoring the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic says wealthy nations have not done enough to transfer COVID-19 vaccines to developing nations where they are desperately needed as the Delta variant drives a new wave of disease around the world,
In May, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), called for the reallocation of one billion doses of the coronavirus vaccine from high-income countries with adequate coverage to low and middle-income nations by September, with another billion by the middle of 2022.
“The world is far from meeting those targets,” Helen Clark, the co-chair of the IPPPR told the United Nations General Assembly in a briefing on Wednesday. “Some commitments have been made but much more needs to be done, and it can be done urgently.”