The world was woefully unprepared for a pandemic. Let’s be ready for the next one | Elhadj As Sy

The world was woefully unprepared for a pandemic. Let’s be ready for the next one | Elhadj As Sy:

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board is calling for a coherent action plan to counter future health emergencies

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Two years ago, three months before coronavirus erupted, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) issued a warning to the international community that a pandemic was only a matter of time, and that the world was not prepared. Tragically, we were proved right.

After 20 months of Covid-19, with nearly five million directly attributed deaths and economic devastation, we say again that the world is not prepared. It has neither the capacity to end the current pandemic in the near future, nor to prevent the next one.

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