Covid-19: WHO DG Warns Of Another Pandemic
–Deaths Now 894,000
The Director General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom has warned the world to brace for another pandemic after the coronavirus.
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Meanwhile, latest data available on Worldometer, reveal that 894,017 Covid-19 deaths, 27,356,087 cases and 19,424,608 recoveries, have been recorded globally.
Speaking at the press briefing on Monday in Geneva, Adhanom stressed that his position was due to the fact that history had a way of repeating itself.
“This will not be the last pandemic.
“History teaches us that outbreaks and pandemics are a fact of life,” he said.
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He held that governments and relevant stakeholders across the world should do the needful to strengthen their health systems, among other things.
“But when the next pandemic comes, the world must be ready – more ready than it was this time.
“Public health is the foundation of social, economic and political stability.
“That means investing in population-based services for preventing, detecting and responding to disease,” he said.
But, he added that situation reports showed that certain countries’ health sectors were still not adequately funded.
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He was of the view that such inadequacies enabled diseases to thrive and ravage human lives.
“In recent years, many countries have made enormous advances in medicine, but too many have neglected their basic public health systems, which are the foundation for responding to infectious disease outbreaks.
“Part of every country’s commitment to build back better must therefore be to invest in public health, as an investment in a healthier and safer future,” he said.
Recall that the coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan China.
It is spread through human-to-human transmission.
