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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kat Lay, Global health correspondent

‘The next pandemic will not wait’: Lula and WHO director in urgent plea for leaders to finalise agreement

Dozens of mounds made of reddish brown dirt, some marked with branches or crosses.
The graves of Ebola victims in Nyamurongo cemetery in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photograph: Jospin Mwisha/AFP/Getty Images

World leaders have been urged to keep a promise to the millions of people who died during Covid by finalising an agreement on how to deal with future pandemics.

As a G7 summit begins in France, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, and Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have issued a joint letter saying a treaty needs urgent political backing at the highest level because “the next pandemic will not wait for us”.

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