An India-backed draft resolution at the 73 rd session of the World Health Assembly got a huge boost on Monday when the African group of countries extended assistance for the movement which looks for international investigation into the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The advancement came right after the Assembly convened in Geneva where the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the international body will look into the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.
” I will initiate an independent assessment at the earliest appropriate moment to evaluate experience acquired and lessons discovered to make suggestions to enhance national and global pandemic preparedness and response,” stated Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO.
The assurance, nevertheless, is at variance from the draft resolution, which was earlier backed by WHO’s 62 countries and looked for to recognize scientific “events” that could have added to the spread of the unique coronavirus and the consequent COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendation becomes part of the text collectively developed by Australia and the European Union. It intends to examine po