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Therefore, each country needs to strengthen its own health system.
Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
CNN
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adan Ghebreyesus, said that the Covid-19 epidemic will not be the last, so countries must strengthen their health systems and be prepared for new emergencies. AFP reports.
Efforts to preserve human health are doomed without addressing global issues such as climate change and animal welfare, he said. Gebreyesus also condemned the myopic wastage of money in specific outbreak control, when nothing is done to prepare for the next outbreak.
“We throw money into an outbreak, and when it happens, we forget it and do nothing to prevent the next one. This is dangerously myopic and, frankly, difficult to understand,” said the WHO head.
It is noted that the September 2019 Global Preparedness Monitoring Council’s first annual report on preparing the world for health emergencies, released months before the novel coronavirus outbreak, says the planet is not very prepared for potentially devastating pandemics. .
“History tells us that this will not be the last pandemic, but epidemics are a reality,” Tedros said.
Let us remember that more than 80 million cases of coronavirus infection have already been registered in the world. Most of the cases during the pandemic were recorded in the United States, 19.2 million, followed by India, 10.1 million, and Brazil, the third, 7.4 million cases.
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