A panel has ruled that China and the World Health Organization did not act quickly and forcefully enough when COVID-19 was first discovered in Wuhan more than a year ago.
With the global death toll from COVID-19 now over two million, an independent panel is examining the response to date both by international organisations like the World Health Organization and individual countries, what lessons can be learned, and how we can be better prepared for the next pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic could be the catalyst for much-needed reform of the World Health Organization just as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 forced urgent changes at the UN nuclear agency, an independent review panel said on Tuesday (19 January).
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