Australia should join a push for a special meeting of the United Nations to fundamentally transform preparedness for the next global pandemic, a scathing report on the COVID-19 crisis says.
Commissioned by the World Health Organisation, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, led by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, has described the more than 3 million deaths and 150 million coronavirus infections around the world as the 21st century’s “Chernobyl moment”.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
