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WHO adopts landmark pandemic agreement

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Far L) delivers his report before delegates during the World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 19, 2025. [AFP]

The UN health agency on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises, struck after more than three years of negotiations sparked by the Covid-19 crisis.

The accord aims to prevent the disjointed response and international disarray that surrounded the Covid-19 pandemic, by improving global coordination and surveillance, and access to vaccines, in any future pandemics.

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