7 hours agoA report requested by the WTO: Covid's Pandemia could be prevented
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Covid's pandemic was an preventable disaster that could not cost millions of lives if the world responded faster, according to an independent high - level panel. The panel report, led by Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and Ellen Johnson Sirleag, former president of [...]
The panel's report, led by Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and Ellen Johnson Sirleag, former Liberian president, found poor “halkas at any point in the chain”.
It says that the preparations were inconsistent and poorly financed, and the alarm system was halted as the World Health Organization [was] removed from power. OBS, reports The Guardian, records Periscope.
“Global Political Lidership was scarce,” concluded in the report further.
Clark described February 2020 as a “month-old loss of opportunity to avoid pandemic, until many countries chose simply to wait and observe series. ”
For some, only when hospital beds started filling up became clear that any action should be taken,” she adds. And by then it was too late to avoid the impact of pandemic. ”
The report was requested by the OBS General.
The panel has called for radical changes that the heads of state would make together to discuss preparations for the pandemic.
This panel has added that the emergency had to be announced on January 22nd and not on January 30th as it had happened. /Periscope
