Time for the unfolding global crisis to be discussed & immediate collective action at the @UN Security Council. The public health & humanitarian crisis in India will not stop at the borders & risks a regional & global wider catastrophe. ft.com/content/ad200d…
The pandemic is increasing in scale & impact in multiple regions, very fragile health systems, recent conflict, millions of displaced people - we are watching a regional & potential global public health & humanitarian disaster unfold. google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
The situation in many regions is worse than awful, the health system has collapsed or is in imminent danger of collapse and with it sectors of society, the situation in parts of middle east are heading in the same direction.
There is very real risk that this will now ripple out, west of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, north to Nepal, east Myanmar & hence South East Asia. There are many links between South Asia into East Africa and hence a continued risk to the continent despite massive efforts to date.
In all these areas immunity may still only about 10-20% (natural infection & vaccination) too low to control transmission.
This is more than the health sector can solve on its own this is now, was predictable & has been for some time a humanitarian disaster unfolding & needs a broader than health response – this is also a security issue of course.
Also heading towards world of countries linked by COVID immune status essentially rich world able to travel & trade within an ‘groups of countries” & much world effectively no go areas with implications for health,economies,trade, debt,politics,future shared action, inequality
All issues which the @UN Security Council could now debate and coordinate action.
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