At least there is a happy consequence to the new Omicron variant.
Its detection last week and the concern it arouses at the global level seem to have overcome the reluctance of some member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding an international treaty on pandemics.
The WHO World Health Assembly, meeting since Monday in extraordinary session, should endorse the creation of a body intended to work on this binding framework by 2024 at the latest.
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Proof of the importance of the subject, this is the second time that the World Health Assembly has met in extraordinary session.
The first session was called urgently in 2006 after the death of a former director general of WHO.
And, if this treaty on pandemics succeeds, it will be the second time that the WHO has adopted a binding framework, after the one decided against smoking.
While China has shown a certain opacity, two years ago, when the first cases of Covid were spotted on its soil, it would be a question of encouraging countries to quickly communicate the useful information at their disposal.
The resolution, called to be voted in
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