A year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world continues to give an insufficient response and does not learn from its mistakes, an independent body created by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world Bank.
“If he first year of the Covid-19 pandemic was defined by a collective failure to take preparedness seriously and act quickly on the basis of science, the second was marked by deep inequalities and a failure of leaders to understand our interdependence and act accordingly, “stated a report by the Board of Global Preparedness Watch (GPMB).
The pandemic revealed a world “unequal, divided and irresponsible”, said the report of the body published in Berlin, when the number of killed by Covid-19 it is close to five million, according to an AFP tally.
Considering the excessive mortality directly and indirectly related to the Covid-19, WHO estimates that the total number of deaths could be two to three times higher.
Of the more than six billion doses of vaccines administered worldwide, only 1.4% reached people in poor countries, the WTO chief denounced earlier this month, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala.
Scientific progress during Covid-19, especially the speed of vaccine development, gives us a source of pride, “says GPMB co-chair Elhadj As Sy in the preface to the report.
“However, we must be deeply ashamed of the many tragedies, such as the hoarding of vaccines, the devastating oxygen shortages in low-income countries, the generation of children deprived of education, the disintegration of economies and fragile health systems “, according to the Senegalese expert on humanitarian aid.
The millions of deaths caused by the pandemic are “neither normal nor acceptable”, but “sadly, there is little evidence that we learned the right lessons from this pandemic,” he adds.
The GPMB declared in 2020 that the pandemic had already revealed the extent to which the world was not well prepared for such disasters, despite warnings that major epidemics were unavoidable.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx