COVID-19 response was 'sequence of failures': WHO's independent evaluation panel

COVID-19 response was a world sequence of failures, an interim report composed by WHO’s unbiased evaluation panel stated. document criticised public well-being leaders and government worldwide for ineffectively handling coronavirus pandemic, citing a lack of planning and inadequate response, including failure to adopt accurate measures. In a report compiled by WHO’s Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, health organisation said: "We have failed in our collective capacity to come toger in solidarity to create a protective web of human security. worst of pandemic and its impact are yet to come as we write at beginning of January 2021". 

Urging world leaders to gar a renewed resolve, be more prepared, more secure, more just, more equitable and more resilient for pandemic threats ahead, committee stressed that UN Secretary-General observed geopolitical tensions that detracted leaders from multilateral and coordinated response to pandemic. " Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response is painfully aware that world was t prepared for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic," panel asserted in report. It furr warned that respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic is continuing to evolve with many countries facing ir most challenging period yet in ir response to COVID-19. 

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[Source: WHO interim report]

[Source: WHO interim report]

Panel calls pandemic 'Wholesale of failure'

Stressing that countries needed to ramp up techniques such as early case detection, travel ban, contact tracing and isolation, panel said that failure to apply such measures is continuing to result in an "unacceptable toll of death, illness, and transmission". Furrmore, report condemned deepened inequalities for vaccines between nations as it said: " full potential of vaccines cant be realized if narrow national interests and ecomic power determine who gets access". It added, that vulnerable and marginalised people in a number of countries have been left without access to health care and immunisation. report urged leaders for strengning preparedness and response, adding that re has been "a wholesale failure to take seriously existential risk posed by pandemic threat". 

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