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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, warned of “the danger of short-term behavior” in a message 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 stated and maintained that there are good lessons to be learned from the coronavirus pandemic.
“For a long time, the world acted in the middle of a cycle of panic and denial”, He assured.
“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 the little preparation of humanity 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 harder place to live“, Held.
