{"id":250005,"date":"2024-05-28T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=250005"},"modified":"2024-05-28T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:29:45","slug":"another-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/another-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Pandemic !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK&#8217;s former chief scientific advisor, has warned that another pandemic is a certainty and the incoming government needs to prioritise preparedness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the Hay Festival, Vallance acknowledged the upcoming election but stressed the urgency of &#8220;sorting out&#8221; critical issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He mentioned the World Health Organisation&#8217;s push for the pandemic accord, a proposed agreement for countries to collaborate on pandemic preparedness, as one of the &#8220;positive steps&#8221; being taken. &#8220;However, I don&#8217;t believe there is enough focus,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If this issue is removed from the G7 and G20 agendas, &#8220;we will be in the same situation, and I hope that is a key outcome of the inquiry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also noted problems with the speed and efficiency of inquiries, stating that we &#8220;must find a better way&#8221; to conduct them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK&#8217;s former chief scientific advisor, has warned that another pandemic is a certainty and the incoming government needs to prioritise preparedness. Speaking at the Hay Festival, Vallance acknowledged the upcoming election but stressed the urgency of &#8220;sorting out&#8221; critical issues. He mentioned the World Health Organisation&#8217;s push for the pandemic accord, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":250006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[114332,114333,114334],"class_list":["post-250005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-another-pandemic","tag-sir-patrick-vallance","tag-uks-former-chief-scientific-advisor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/sir-patrick.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250007,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250005\/revisions\/250007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}