“We are very ready to ask the questions,” said former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, co-chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), which will devastate the much-criticized organization led by the World Health Organization. Response panel.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International has said that more than 7,000 fitness have died from the virus worldwide, adding more than 1,300 in Mexico, the maximum for all countries.
The virus continued to disrupt the world of sports and entertainment, and filming of the new Batman film stopped in Britain because its star Robert Pattinson tested for the disease.
French football team Paris Saint-German said three other members of their team had become infected, a day after Neymar and two teammates were diagnosed, and Argentine football giant Boca Juniors said 18 of their players were tested just two weeks before they resumed their Copa Libertadores. Campaign. .
Second in the United States
Brazil exceeded 4 million instances with 124,600 deaths, only the United States.
There were nearly 44,000 new cases in the last 24 hours and 834 deaths; however, some experts have noticed a ray of hope in statistics: the South American giant may be about to improve.
“In the more than two months, we have noticed a curve that mixes expanding regions, with others in decline,” said Paulo Lotufo, professor of epidemiology at the University of Sao Paulo, pointing to peaks in the south and midwest, while cases are declining in major cities in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as in the north.
But experts warned that the scenario could get worse if local and regional governments gave in to pressure from business teams to reopen the economy too soon and if social esttachment measures are abandoned.
International research
As the death toll increased, IPPR said its members would have been released from WHO archives.
WHO “has made it clear that its archives are an open book. Everything we see, we see,” said former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who co-directs the panel with Sirleaf.
“We can’t wait a century to pass before a pandemic like this happens,” Clark said. The WHO has been accused of being slow to respond to the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China.
“If it took off like this in a short time, how devastating it would be now that we know the extent of the damage that can be done,” Clark said.
WHO has been violently attacked through US President Donald Trump, who flees his country from the UN agency.
She accuses the organization of having damaged her control of the pandemic and of being a “puppet of China. “
In this context, WHO Member States approved a solution in May calling for an “impartial, independent and comprehensive evaluation matrix . . . to read about the pleasure gained and the lessons learned from the WHO-coordinated foreign aptitude response” to the pandemic.
He said the investigation will review the actionsArray. deadlines. “
“Despite many warnings for years that such a pandemic is a primary global risk, why has the world been left off guard?” asked Clark.
Economic brake
Viral disruptions and restrictions have wreaked havoc on the global economy.
G20 foreign ministers held a virtual assembly organized across Saudi Arabia to seek foreign cooperation to ease restrictions and reopen borders.
“The reopening of borders, in accordance with all Array protection measures . . . our economies will prosper, other people will prosper and, of course, bring hope for humanity,” said Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan.
In Nepal on Thursday, police fired water cannons and tear fuel to avoid a tank festival that lured many Hindus and Buddhists to the streets defying the restrictions of the coronavirus.