Covid-19 not essentially the massive one, it’s a wake-up name: WHO warns disaster might worsen

Image Source : AP Covid-19 not essentially the massive one, it’s a wake-up name: WHO warns disaster might worsen
The World Health Organisation have warned that the Coronavirus just isn’t essentially the massive one, and that there’s a actual likelihood of one other, extra severe pandemic spreading internationally and urged the world to get “serious” about preparedness. “This is a wake-up call,” WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan instructed reporters at a briefing.

“It has spread around the world extremely quickly and it has affected every corner of this planet, but this is not necessarily the big one,” Ryan was quoted as saying by AFP.

He pressured that whereas the virus is “very transmissible, and it kills people… its current case fatality (rate) is reasonably low in comparison to other emerging diseases.”

WHO senior advisor Bruce Aylward additionally cautioned that whereas the world had made big scientific progress to handle the coronavirus disaster, together with growing vaccines at file velocity, it remained removed from ready to chase away future pandemics.

“We are into second and third waves of this virus and we are still not prepared to deal with and manage those,” he was quoted as saying at the briefing by the information company.

“So while we are better prepared… we are not fully prepared for this one, let alone the next one.”

Meanwhile, voicing hope that the COVID-19 pendamic had helped world change into extra ready to sort out future threats, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentioned, “In phrases of consciousness, I believe we are actually getting it.”
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