{"id":16646,"date":"2020-09-15T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T06:55:59","slug":"virus-will-not-be-last-pandemic-or-health-crisis-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16646","title":{"rendered":"Virus will not be last pandemic or health crisis: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GENEVA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned Monday that COVID-19 is a harbinger of future global health emergencies, and called for political and financial investments to prevent pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will not be the last pandemic, nor the last global health emergency,&#8221; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the launch of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) 2020 report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not know what the next health emergency will be, but we know it will come. And we must be prepared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tedros&#8217; speech came as the world surpassed 29 million cases with 924,953 confirmed deaths and nearly 19.7 million recoveries from COVID-19, according to the US\u2019 Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO also reported a record one-day rise in infections at some 308,000.<\/p>\n<p>The GPMB is an independent monitoring and accountability body to ensure preparedness for global health crises.<\/p>\n<p>Tedros said humanity has a shared responsibility to leave the world better prepared for the next pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the COVID-19 pandemic had taken a massive toll on lives and livelihoods, disrupting health systems, economies, and societies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even countries with advanced health systems and powerful economies have been overwhelmed,&#8221; said Tedros.<\/p>\n<p>But many of the countries that did well were those that learned from previous outbreaks like SARS, MERS, H1N1, Ebola, and others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can no longer wring our hands and say something must be done,&#8221; said the WHO chief.<\/p>\n<p>Without learning the lessons now and taking the necessary steps to make the world safer, Tedros asked, &#8220;When will we?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe do not know what the next health emergency will be, but we know it will come. And we must be prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA The World Health Organization (WHO) chief warned Monday that COVID-19 is a harbinger of future global health emergencies, and called for political and financial investments to prevent pandemics. &#8220;This will not be the last pandemic, nor the last global health emergency,&#8221; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the launch of the Global Preparedness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16647,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions\/16647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}