Munich Feb 19, (dpa/GNA) – Ramping up vaccination production and deploying a permanent team of some 3,000 experts and researchers were two immediate measures needed to help in the fight to contain the next global pandemic, Bill Gates said.
The Microsoft founder and co-chairman of the Gates Foundation, told the Munich Security Conference the world will soon have to invest billions in preparing for the next pandemic, to avoid another “tragedy” like the one with the coronavirus.
“It’s a tragedy that the limited steps that would have been needed in advance to contain this epidemic were not taken,” Gates told the conference via a video link.
The global economy had lost trillions of dollars and governments are saddled with record debt, he pointed out.
GNA