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Today, five years since the first victim of Covid-19/ How prepared are we for a second pandemic?
2025-01-11 09:14:03 / BOTA
The first death due to the Corona virus was recorded five years ago, on January 11, 2020: Is the world today better prepared for new pandemics?
Five years ago, a hitherto unknown virus plunged humanity into an unprecedented crisis: on January 11, 2020, the world's first death from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was recorded in China.
Five years after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, experts are wondering how well the world is prepared for future pandemics.
WHO assessment
Asked whether the world is now better prepared for pandemics, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in December: " The answer is yes and no ."
The world still has to face " some weaknesses and trends of weakness ". On the other hand, the world community has learned many " painful lessons " and " has taken important measures to strengthen its protection against future epidemics and pandemics ", the head of the WHO emphasized.
According to Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO's Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Response, it is only a matter of time before the world is threatened by the next pandemic.
As a result of the experiences from the Corona pandemic and the severe influenza epidemic in 2009, " many things have improved ", but the world remains insufficiently prepared for a " massive outbreak " of an infectious disease or a new pandemic , is Van Kerkhove's opinion.
Even the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response, convened by the WHO, comes to a very similar conclusion: Among other things, it criticizes the fact that there are still inequities around the world in access to vaccines and medicines.
American epidemiologist Meg Scheffer is also skeptical: " To be honest, no, I don't think we're any more prepared than we were with Covid ."
Health authorities around the world are still unable to rapidly collect and exchange information about new pathogens./ DW
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