LONDON, May 18 —The world is no better prepared for a new pandemic threat than it was when coronavirus emerged in 2019, and may actually be in a worse place given the economic toll, according to a review panel set up to evaluate the global response.
The report authors, led by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former president of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, acknowledged some progress, but said the process was going far too slowly. “If there were a new pandemic threat this year, next year, or the year after at least, we will be largely in the same place ... maybe worse, given the tight fiscal space of many, if not most, countries right now.”
While the body welcomed some steps forward, including moves to establish a separate global health security fund within the World Bank, it warned that global interest was waning and the years it will take to set up other instruments – including a potential pandemic treaty, an international agreement to improve preparedness - were too long. Read full story
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