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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the coronavirus it won’t be the last pandemic and he recalled that health advances will be insufficient if there are no changes regarding global warming and animal welfare.
The Director General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, alerted to “the danger of short-term behaviors”, in a video message recorded for the commemoration on Sunday of the first International Day of Preparedness for Epidemics.
“History shows us that it will not be the last pandemic,” he said and maintained that good lessons must be drawn from the coronavirus pandemic.
“For a long time, the world acted amid a cycle of panic and denial,” he said.
“We spend money when the crisis breaks out, but when it is over, we forget and do nothing to prevent the next one. It is the danger of behavior in the short term ”, lamented the director general of this UN agency.
The first annual Report on Global Preparedness for Health Emergencies, published in September 2019, already warned of humanity’s poor preparation for major pandemics, a few months before the COVID-19 crisis began.
“The pandemic revealed the close links between the health of people, animals and the planet,” he said.
“All efforts to improve health systems will be insufficient if they are not accompanied by a critique of the relationship between humans and animals, as well as the existential threat posed by climate change, which is making the Earth a more unique place difficult to live ”.
The new coronavirus caused at least 1.75 million deaths and infected 80 million people in the world after the first cases were detected in China in December 2019, according to the count carried out by AFP through official data.
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