WHO launches data center in Berlin to predict pandemics

The World Health Organization has opened a new center in Berlin to help countries around the world assess and better respond to threats from epidemics and pandemics in the context of the Corona crisis.

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A statement on the organization’s website Wednesday said the new Berlin center will bring together “diverse partnerships from across disciplines and the latest technologies, so that data and information are shared in the public interest.”

The statement added that the new center “will support experts and policymakers around the world, to be able to predict, detect and assess the risks of epidemics and pandemics so that they can respond quickly to public health emergencies in the future. “.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press release following the launching ceremony of the aforementioned center that the world must be “able to detect new potentially pandemic events and monitor them. timely disease control measures to establish effective pandemic and epidemic risk management. “”.

He added that the new center will benefit from innovations in data science, with the aim of monitoring and responding to public health, and creating systems through which we can share and extend expertise in this field, to the global scale.

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Germany has made an initial investment of $ 100 million for the center, which will be headed by Shekwe Ikoizu, the current managing director of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who attended the launching ceremony of the center, underlined the importance of knowledge exchange globally in light of the Corona crisis.

Merkel said the pandemic “has shown how much we can accomplish when we join forces,” noting that experts around the world have enriched and shared their knowledge about the Corona virus with impressive speed.

Source: RT + agencies

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