Year on, WHO says COVID-19 early alarm fell on some deaf ears

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Nearly a year after first describing Covid-19 as a pandemic, the WHO complained that some failed to listen to its earlier urgent warnings.

“One of the things we still need to understand is why some countries acted on those warnings, while others were slower to react,” he told a press conference.

Ryan said he fully understood that the public might not necessarily have reacted to the PHEIC declaration, but stressed that all 194 WHO member countries had agreed on that as the “trigger to collective action in response for containment. However, he added: “I fear too many countries thought they were on a mountain top watching the waters rise to consume and overwhelm others.‘Don’t squander progress’

“We have come so far, we have suffered so much, and we have lost so many. We cannot — we must not — squander the progress we have made,” he stressed.

 

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D kasi umpisa ng surnames nila. DO NOTHING. Do wait. Do not ban flights from China.

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