These include complex and fragmented governance, inadequate financing, and insufficient systems and tools. He said that Covid exposed and exacerbated fundamental weaknesses in the global architecture for pandemic preparedness and response. “Indeed, Omicron demonstrates just why the world needs a new accord on pandemics,” Ghebreyesus said. “Our current system disincentivises countries from alerting others to threats that will inevitably land on their shores. He further pushed the need for a global treaty on pandemics to help countries prevent and fight future pandemics.
“But Omicron’s very emergence is another reminder that although many of us might think we are done with Covid-19, it is not done with us,” Ghebreyesus said. “We shouldn’t need another wake-up call we should all be wide awake to the threat of this virus. “The emergence of the highly-mutated Omicron variant underlines just how perilous and precarious our situation is. Geneva: Even as the world is entering a third year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the infectious disease that claimed the lives of more than 5 million people so far is far from over, the WHO said on Monday.Īt the Special Session of the World Health Assembly, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the world remains in the grip of “the most acute health crisis in a century” even though it can be prevented, detected, and treated.
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