Former Australian Prime Minister, Chairman of the UN Global Partnership on Sanitation and Water Kevin Radd warned people of the whole world about the threat of an eternal pandemic. His article is published in Project Syndicate magazine.
He noted that almost a quarter of humanity lives on Indian subcontinent, but world leaders focus on the fight against the outbreaks of COVID-19 and its new options in their countries. At the same time, in India’s hospitals lack oxygen and hospital beds, and the bodies of the dead from infection remain in the Holy Gang River.
Radd added that the growth of the incidence of coronavirus in the most densely populated country in the world aggravates the situation, since the wave will continue to spread to rural areas of the subcontinent and threatens a humanitarian catastrophe. “Help South Asia is not only the right act; it is also in our own interests. The unrestrained spread of the virus can create more deadly options that threaten all of us,” the ex-Prime Minister of Australia stressed.
He recommended by global governments to help India with vaccination and use all the possibilities to speed up this process. According to him, today there are less than 10 percent of citizens in every South Asian country, with the exception of Bhutan.
Ex-Prime Minister Australia stressed that it is also necessary to deal with disinformation and fraud with fake drugs, carry out campaigns for the spread of masks, vaccines, social distance and other measures and solve the problem of lack of oxygen for the treatment of patients with coronavirus. “If we cannot truly protect people around the world, stopping the virus and slowing down his mutation, we can face the perspective of an eternal pandemic,” concluded Radd.