WHO chief Tedros calls for world to unite to prep for next pandemic

Nikkei/FT conference address touts 'One Health approach,' multiple sectors working for public benefit

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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses the Nikkei conference via video. (Photo by Yutaka Miyaguchi)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Nikkei and the Financial Times on Monday hosted the tenth Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases ConferenceĀ in Tokyo. The three-day conference is meant to discuss how to apply the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in the future.

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sent a message on video, saying that the world has to be united to strengthen our preparation for the next emergency. He also stressed that public-private partnerships are important to support the development and supply of vaccines and other tools to help save lives.

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