The head of the World Health Organization has signed the health organization's Pandemic Treaty to prepare the world for “Disease He called on all countries to sign.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, Tedros said he hoped countries around the world would reach a pandemic agreement by May to deal with future dangers, the newspaper said. said. new york post. Scientists estimate that 'Disease X' could be up to 20 times more deadly than the new coronavirus infection.
Ghebreyesus said COVID-19 is the first Disease X and it is important that countries around the world are better prepared for the next disease to come. WHO Nickname added “This represents the knowledge that serious international epidemics can be caused by pathogens not currently known to cause human disease.”
USA Today report In 2018, WHO added 'Disease X' to its list of priority diseases and pathogens for special research. The plan includes diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Ebola, and aims to “enable access to effective tests, vaccines and medicines” that can save lives during serious health emergencies. The aim is to quickly secure possibilities.
“Unknown things can happen, and what happens is a matter of when, not if. So for diseases that we don't know about, we need a placeholder for that.” Ghebreyesus said.
“We lost a lot of people [during COVID] Because we couldn't control them,” Ghebreyesus added. “We could have saved them, but we didn't have the space. We didn't have enough oxygen. So how do we build a system that can scale when we need it?”
Ghebreyesus went on to suggest that the best way to prepare for such a possibility would be to draft a treaty that countries could get behind.
“The pandemic agreement can bring together all the experiences we have faced, all the challenges and all the solutions,” Ghebreyesus said. “This agreement will help us prepare for the future in a better way.”
“This is a common global interest, and very narrow national interests should not get in the way.”
It is unclear how many countries plan to sign the treaty.
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