At the last press conference of 2020, the World Health Organization called on humanity to prepare for the worst of the coronavirus. The organization admitted that “we are in the second and third waves of the Corona pandemic and we are still not ready and we cannot handle it”.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned today, Monday December 28, 2020, that despite the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic, which killed more than 1.7 million and injured tens of millions in one year, it is urgent to prepare for the worst”. “It’s a wake-up call,” said Michael Ryan, director of the World Health Organization’s emergency program, at the last press conference this year for the primary care organization in the fight against the worst pandemic the world has known in a hundred years.
Ryan, who has encountered the most dangerous diseases on the ground in his working life, warned: “This pandemic is very acute. It has spread rapidly around the world and has reached every corner of the planet, but this is not necessarily the worst. “
He acknowledged that the virus “spreads very easily and kills people” but stressed that “the death rate is relatively low compared to other new diseases”. He stressed the need to “prepare for the future for what could be worse”.
His colleague Bruce Aylward, a WHO adviser, agreed with this view, who felt that despite the progress made in the fight against Covid-19, including the production of effective vaccines in record time, the world is still far from ready to fight against future pandemics.
“We are in the second and third wave of this virus and we are still not ready and we cannot handle it,” Aylward said at the press conference. He stressed that “while we are better prepared, we are not fully prepared for the current pandemic and we are less prepared for the next”.
For his part, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus preferred to see the bright side.
Tedros said, “On a perceptual level, I think we are ready,” stressing that the time has come “to take things very seriously,” adding that things require “greater ambition.”
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