UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged all states to prepare for further health crises such as Covid-19. “A pandemic cannot be fought country by country. The world must come together,” he said, according to the UN in Vienna.
“Covid-19 was a wake-up call,” he said about three years after the discovery of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen and on the occasion of International Epidemic Preparedness Day on Dec. 27. “Covid-19 will certainly not be the last epidemic or pandemic humanity will face,” Guterres explains.
Guterres: “To take a bitter lesson to heart”
“The global community must take the bitter lesson learned from Covid-19 to heart and invest ambitiously in pandemic preparedness, prevention and control.” Virus surveillance needs to be improved to identify viruses with epidemic potential at an early stage.
There is also a need for more resilient health systems and health workers who are well trained, well equipped and well paid.
Science must fight disinformation
“We must give all countries equal access to vaccines, treatments, diagnostics and life-saving technologies,” said the UN Secretary-General. Scientific and fact-based information should also be used to combat “the scourge of misinformation and pseudoscience”.
Source: Krone
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