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Accord reached in principle over tackling future pandemics
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|April 13, 2025
WHO members on Saturday reached agreement over how to tackle future pandemics after three years of discussions, the co-chair of the negotiating body told AFP.
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"We have an accord in principle" and the final version will have to be okayed by the various member states, Anne-Claire Amprou, who is also French ambassador for world health, said.
Amprou said delegates would meet on Tuesday in Geneva to put the finishing touches to a landmark text on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response and give it their definitive seal of agreement.
The text will then require the final seal of approval from all World Health Organization members at the World Health Assembly in Geneva at the end of May.
This story is from the April 13, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Gurugram.
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