Difficult prognosis from the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) today warned that the coronavirus would not be the last pandemic and stressed that progress in health will be insufficient if there are no changes in global warming and animal welfare.

The Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ante alert “the danger of short-term behavior”, in a video message recorded for Sunday’s commemoration of the first international day of epidemic preparedness, according to AFP.

“History shows us that this will not be the last pandemic”, said the WHO director, who argued that good lessons must be learned from the coronavirus pandemic.

“During a very long time, the world acted in a cycle of panic and denial “, Insurance.

And he regretted that “we spend money when the crisis hits, but when it ends, we do nothing to prevent the next one. This is the danger of short-term behavior ”,

The first annual report on global health emergency preparedness, published in September 2019, warned of humanity’s poor preparation for major pandemics, a few months before the start of the COVID-19 crisis.

“The pandemic has revealed the close links between the health of people, animals and the planet”, said.

“All efforts to improve health systems will be insufficient if they are not accompanied by a critique of the relationship between humans and animals, as well as the existential threat posed by climate change, which makes the Earth a better place, difficult to live in, ”said Tedros.

The novel coronavirus has caused at least 1.75 million deaths and infected 80 million people worldwide after the first cases were detected in China in December 2019.