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#BREAKING WHO could have sounded pandemic alarm sooner: probe

#UPDATE The catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented had the warning signs been heeded, the global panel investigating the world's coronavirus response concluded Wednesday

#UPDATE The catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded Wednesday, but a "toxic cocktail" of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded
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#UPDATE One investigator behind Wednesday's explosive report highlighting the mistakes that allowed Covid-19 to flourish told AFP that urgent reform was needed to withstand future pandemic threats
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#UPDATE An expert panel on Wednesday blamed bad coordination as well as dithering by national governments and international organisations for the failure to tackle #COVID19 before it became a full-blown pandemic, as India's death toll topped 250,000 u.afp.com/Uss3