In a recent statement issued by the head of the World Health Organisation on Tuesday, he has warned the world governments that they is need to prepare for a disease even deadlier than Covid-19.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
director general of WHO, emphasized the need to advance negotiations on preventing the next pandemic.
He warned that nation states cannot “kick this can down the road” and that the next global disease was bound to “come knocking”.
He further reiterated that “If we do not make the changes that must be made, then who will? And if we do not make them now, then when?”
He
added: “The threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges
of disease and death remains. And the threat of another pathogen
emerging with even deadlier potential remains.”