The coronavirus pandemic which has caused the death of 5.4 million people – it continues to leave 50,000 deaths a week almost two years later – and now reaches 280 million cases worldwide it won’t be the last. The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, has warned, who urges that let’s prepare “now” for new infectious outbreaks that are yet to come.
“It will not be the last pandemic” that the world will have to face, declared the international president in his message for the International Day of Preparedness for Epidemics.
Guterres has warned that “infectious diseases they remain a danger that stalks all countries“.” Any outbreak, wherever it arises, can become a pandemic, “said the expert.
Thus, he has emphasized the need to “increase investment to improve surveillance, early detection and response plans speed of all countries, especially the most vulnerable. ”
In addition, the UN secretary general has urged “to strengthen local primary health care systems to prevent them from collapsing” and to ensure that all people have access to vaccines “under equitable conditions” and to achieve universal health coverage. “Above all, we must promote global solidarity so that all countries are in a position to stop the spread of diseases, infections as soon as they detect an outbreak, “he indicated.
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