World remains unprepared to face new pandemics

World remains unprepared to face new pandemics – panel

By Agence France-Presse

May 18, 2022 6:18 pm

GENEVA: Global reform efforts to better ward off new pandemic threats have been slow and fragmented, leaving the world as unprepared as when Covid-19 first surfaced, a report warned Wednesday.

A year ago, an independent expert panel presented a damning report to the World Health Organization's main annual assembly complaining that poor coordination and bad decisions had allowed the Covid pandemic to swell to such a catastrophic scale.

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