WHO's accord push for pandemic fight
The Herald|November 30, 2021
THE World Health Organisation is pushing for an international accord to help prevent and fight future pandemics amid the emergence of the worrying new Omicron variant of Covid-19.
WHO's accord push for pandemic fight

WHO's director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Monday that many uncertainties remained about just how transmissible and severe infection by the highly mutated Omicron might be.

The director-general joined leaders including the outgoing German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera for a long-planned and largely virtual special session of the UN health agency's member states at the World Health Assembly.

The gathering is aimed at devising a global action plan towards preventing, preparing for and responding to future pandemics.

“The emergence of the highly mutated Omicron variant underlines just how perilous and precarious our situation is,” Dr Ghebreyesus said, calling for a legally binding agreement that was not mentioned in a draft text seeking consensus on the way forward. “Indeed, Omicron demonstrates just why the world needs a new accord on pandemics”

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