LONDON: Future pandemic can be more deadly than Covid-19 so the lessons learned from the outbreak should not be wasted and the world must ensure it prepared for the next viral proposal, one of the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine makers said.
Novel Coronavirus has killed 5.26 million people worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University, wiping the trillions of dollars in economic output and turning life for billions of people.
“The truth is, the next one can be worse.
It can be more contagious, or more deadly, or both,” said Sarah Gilbert in Richard Dimbly, BBC reported.
“It won’t be the last sentence of the virus threatening our lives and our livelihoods.” Gilbert, a Professor Vaccinology at the University of Oxford, said the world must ensure it is better prepared for the next virus.
“The progress we make, and the knowledge we get, should not be lost,” he said.
Efforts to end the Covid-19 pandemic are uneven and fragmented, characterized by limited access to vaccines in low-income countries while “healthy and rich” in rich countries get a booster, health experts said.
The health expert panel founded by the World Health Organization to review the handling of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic which calls for permanent funding and for greater ability to investigate new pandemics through the New Testament.
One proposal is for new financing of a minimum of $ 10 billion per year for the readiness of the pandemic.
Covid-19 outbreak was first detected in China at the end of 2019.
Vaccines were developed against viruses in a short time.
Gilbert said the protein surge in the omicron variant containing mutations known to increase the transmission of the virus.
“There are additional changes that might mean antibodies caused by vaccines, or with infections with other variants, it may be less effective in preventing infection with Omicron,” Gilbert said.
“Until we know more, we must be careful, and take steps to slow down the spread of this new variant.”