WHO adopts landmark pandemic agreement

World Health Organization's decision-making annual assembly on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises at its Geneva headquarters. The accord aims to prevent the disjointed response and international disarray that surrounded the Covid-19 pandemic, by improving global coordination and surveillance, and access to vaccines, in any future pandemics. 

The agreement is a victory for public health, science and multilateral action. The text of the agreement was finalized by consensus last month, following multiple rounds of negotiations.