The updated report found the world's COVID-19 response remains 'insufficient' and 'inequitable.'
More Americans died in two years of the COVID-19 pandemic than in 40 years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.pandemic, and remains vulnerable to the next major health crisis, a panel created by the World Health Organization has concluded.
The panel, which is led by former New Zealand Prime Minister and UNDP chief Helen Clark and former Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, urged continued action to avert the next pandemic, as the globe faces ongoing unnecessary losses to the virus.Patients wait for medical treatment in a temporary holding area outside Caritas Medical Center in Hong Kong, Feb. 16, 2022, as COVID-19 infection rates soared.
The panel's extensive investigation last year had already revealed failures and gaps in governments' international and national responses, which ultimately failed to protect the public. People walk past the National Covid Memorial Wall in London on March 23, 2022 as Britain held a minute's silence to remember the victims of the coronavirus pandemic, on the second anniversary of the country's first lockdown.
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