WHO adopts pandemic deal that takes lessons from COVID

Treaty countries that share virus samples to receive tests, medicines and vaccine

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, applauds as member countries approve an agreement to combat future pandemics at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on May 20.

GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization's member countries on Tuesday approved an agreement to better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics in the wake of the devastation wrought by the coronavirus.

Sustained applause echoed in a Geneva hall hosting the WHO's annual assembly as the measure, debated and devised over three years, passed without opposition.

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