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The leaders of independent panel charged with examining the cause and response of the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday called for a better, more cooperative and transparent global system for dealing with future worldwide health emergencies.
The independent panel was formed last year by World Health Organization ((WHO)) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the request of the organization’s membership.
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who led the panel, told reporters Wednesday in a virtual presentation, the pandemic is an ongoing disaster that could have been prevented.
Their report said coordinated, global leadership was absent, and global tensions undermined efforts by international, multilateral institutions to take cooperative action.
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GENEVA A new global system should be set up to respond faster to disease outbreaks to help ensure no future virus causes a pandemic as devastating as COVID-19, an independent World Health Organization review panel said on Wednesday. The experts found crucial shortcomings in the global response in early 2020 - including a delay in declaring an emergency, a failure to impose travel restrictions and an entire lost month when countries neglected to respond to warnings - that let the virus quickly spread into a crippling pandemic. To address those problems, the WHO should be given the power to send investigators swiftly to chase down new disease outbreaks, and to publish their full findings without delay.
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