GENEVA: Healthcare systems worldwide need to upgrade to control disease transmission and cope with large numbers of sick people during the coronavirus pandemic as well as future outbreaks, the head of the World Health Organization's emergencies program warned on Friday .
Dr Michael Ryan of the WHO, speaking during a video panel session organised by the International AIDS Society, said world leaders grappling with the current pandemic"need to take a leaf out of the HIV/AIDS activist book" and make sure access to healthcare is equitable and evidence-based.
But researchers do expect to eventually have vaccines effective against the novel coronavirus, which people can recover from on their own.The WHO official said the two viruses are"different in scope and nature, but are comparable in so many other ways", exposing the same inequities and generating similar injustices and denial.
"We cannot become distracted with retrospection and finger-pointing ... We need to look ahead," Ryan said.
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