Prognosis
World Leaders Seek International Treaty on Future Pandemics
- Treaty could give WHO more power to fight new health threats
- Leaders say pandemic ‘exploited’ weakness and divisions
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Governments and the World Health Organization are uniting on a push for a new treaty to improve defenses against future pandemics after the Covid-19 outbreak exposed weaknesses in the system.
The main goal of the accord would be to ensure what the WHO, one of the signatories, has called for throughout the pandemic: a collective approach across countries and societies that would make the world more resilient in future outbreaks.