Despite three 'brutal' years of the Covid-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are 'severely lacking', the International Federation of Red Cross said.
File: Red Cross rescuers carry the body of woman killed in a residential building which was shelled in the city of Mykolaiv.GENEVA - All countries remain"dangerously unprepared" for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters.
"All countries remain dangerously unprepared for future outbreaks," the IFRC said, concluding that governments were no more ready now than in 2019. It said extreme weather events were growing more frequent and intense,"and our ability to merely respond to them is limited". "The next pandemic could be just around the corner; if the experience of Covid-19 won't quicken our steps toward preparedness, what will?"
The IFRC said if trust was fragile, public health became political and individualised -- something which impaired the Covid response. The organisation also said local communities should be leveraged to perform life-saving work, as that is where pandemics begin and end.
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