Cost would be billions, but represents a huge saving on $11tn response to Covid-19, estimates showSpending $5 (£3.90) per person annually on global health security over the next five years could prevent a future “catastrophic” pandemic, according to a former head of the World Health Organization (WHO). Brundtland, co-chair of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) and a former prime minister of Norway, said there had been a collective failure to take prevention and response seriously and to prioritise it. We need to be better prepared.”The board’s second report, published on Monday, says another pandemic is “sure to come” without strong leadership, solidarity and collective global action. Measles vaccination disruptions due to coronavirus put 80 million children at risk Read moreThey called for stronger support for international institutions, more responsive financial systems and for a UN summit on global health security to be convened to agree a framework to prepare and respond to future health emergencies. “Here we say that every country should have a 2% coverage because that would cover health personnel and those who are very vulnerable.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2020 03:56 UTC