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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned before “the danger of short-term behaviors”, in a video message recorded for the commemoration this Sunday of the first International Day of Preparedness for Epidemics.
“History shows us that it will not be the last pandemic”, affirmed and maintained that good lessons must be drawn from the coronavirus pandemic. “For a long time, the world acted in the middle of a cycle of panic and denial,” he said.
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“We spend money when the crisis erupts, 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 WHO argues that humans make the mistake that once one pandemic is over, they forget and do nothing to prevent the next. Photo: Pixabay.
The first Annual Report on Global Preparedness for Health Emergencies, published in September 2019, has already warned of the poor preparation of humanity for major pandemics, few months before the COVID-19 crisis began.
“The pandemic revealed the close links between the health of people, animals and the planet”, said.
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“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 difficult place to live, “he said. Ghebreyesus.
The new coronavirus caused at least 1.75 million died 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 the AFP through official data.
