We must be alert to the arrival of a new, deadly epidemic

Caracas.- World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned of the threat of “another emerging pathogen with even more lethal potential” as he called on the international community to “prepare” for the possibility of new epidemics. .

“When the next pandemic comes, and it will, we must be ready to respond decisively, collectively and equally,” he said.

According to the WHO, pandemics are far from the only threat facing humanity, but it has taken for granted that new pathogens and new epidemics will arrive, which is why it urged world leaders to design a strategy to address these challenges.

According to WHO’s director, the epidemic “has a high cost to mental health.” “Like many healthcare workers around the world, many of our own staff have experienced severe stress and exhaustion,” as “the pandemic has presented us with unprecedented challenges.”

In addition, it warned of another “emerging variant of Covid-19” that could cause “new waves of illness and death”.

“The pandemic has thrown us off course, but it shows us why the Sustainable Development Goals must be our lodestar and why we must pursue them with the same urgency and determination that we faced the pandemic,” he asserts.

With information from Mundo.es