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The head of the World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to quickly finalize a landmark global agreement on managing future pandemics after they missed a critical deadline, Arab News reported yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the wake of the devastating impacts of COVID-19, countries have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the missed deadline ahead of this week’s World Health Assembly, Tedros Adhanom expressed confidence that an agreement will still be secured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He acknowledged the immense technical, legal, and political challenges faced by negotiators, praising their tireless dedication to the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the Assembly ongoing, he expressed hope that the global community will come together to strengthen the world’s capacity to handle future health emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The head of the World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to quickly finalize a landmark global agreement on managing future pandemics after they missed a critical deadline, Arab News reported yesterday. In the wake of the devastating impacts of COVID-19, countries have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":106004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8348,8349],"class_list":["post-106003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pandemic-management-accord","tag-who-director"],"yoast_head":"\n