LENIAS HWENDA: Quo vadis international co-operation to mitigate pandemics post Covid-19

The IHR-2005 provides no incentives to compel countries to perform even the most basic function of accurately and promptly reporting disease outbreaks. This is made worse by the fact that countries that report outbreaks are sometimes penalised for alerting the world to a new threat. For example, when SA reported the Omicron variant European and North American countries immediately shut out travellers from Southern Africa and many other parts of the world.

Inevitably, such requirements fail because the WHO does not have the power to compel sovereign nations to keep their borders open. Nor can it stop them buying more vaccines than they need. In this respect international accords are setting themselves up to fail by setting impractical goals that are not enforceable. This raises the question whether it is realistic to expect that a new treaty could become the solution to the catastrophic failures of a global Covid-19 pandemic.

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