Updated: 12 May 2021, 13:16
THE catastrophic scale of the coronavirus pandemic was caused by a toxic cocktail of delay, hesitation and denial, a report has revealed.
A series of disastrous decisions led to the deaths of nearly four million people and devastated the global economy, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said.
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The emergence of Covid was defined by a mix of some early and rapid action, but also by delay, hesitation, and denial Credit: Alamy
Institutions failed to protect people and science-denying leaders damaged public trust in health interventions, the panel said in its long-awaited final report.
It said the early response to the outbreak in Wuhan, China, lacked urgency and February 2020 was branded a lost month as countries failed to take action.
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An expert panel on Wednesday (12 May) 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.
India added a record 4,205 deaths to its Covid-19 toll in the past 24 hours, with the variant stoking the country’s surge now present in dozens of other countries across the globe.
India said a record number of people were killed by the coronavirus, pushing its death toll over a quarter million, while a leading virologist said it was too early to say if infections had reached a peak.
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