WELLINGTON: New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained 'flat-footed' in its response to pandemics it faces ...
Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand in a picture taken Sep 21, 2018. WELLINGTON: New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained"flat-footed" in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO announced late on Thursday that Clark and Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a panel scrutinising the global response.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called both women"strong-minded, independent leaders", aiming to underscore their freedom in assessing his agency's and governments' COVID-19 responses.
The COVID-19 outbreak originated in China in late 2019 and has infected a reported 12.16 million people globally and 550,242 have died, according to a Reuters tally. The United States has accused China of not being open with the rest of the world in the early stages of the outbreak. Beijing has rejected the charge and has fiercely rejected calls for an inquiry, describing the efforts as US-led propaganda against China.
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