The dreadful and formidable Corona virus has brought the world to its knees indeed and perpetrated huge sufferings on mankind with which humanity is still encountering for its survival. Normally, against a common enemy the world would have joined its efforts to give Covid a befitting fight collectively but the nations miserably failed in its strive to eliminate the virus. The monster is still haunting the world even after bringing a devastating impact on human lives.
A World Health Organisation (WHO) panel has studied the impact felt and analysed the situation world over in a report.
Covid-19 has exposed fully a broken and fragmented world that is inequitable, unaccountable and divided, resulting in its failure to put an end to the pandemic that has so far killed 4.95 million globally, according to a report by a World Health Organisation (WHO) panel. It stated that from the time the pandemic began, almost two years ago, the world continues to struggle to mitigate its crushing impact and that would likely to prolong further.
While in the first year, countries collectively failed to take serious preparations and act rapidly, in the second one, they exhibited profound inequality as the world leaders failed to interconnect, making the world more interdependent than ever. The world continues to
be fragmented by growing nationalism, geopolitical tensions, and deep inequalities, said the report. As of October 2021, as many as 17 million people will have died due to
Covid-19. More than 1.5 million children around the world have lost a parent or a grandparent… Behind each death, there is a human story, a loss of potential, and an enormous gap left in a community… While this disaster should have brought us together, instead we are divided, fragmented, and living in worlds apart, said the report.
Although the speed of vaccine development is a matter of pride, but we must feel deep shame over multiple tragedies — dying like insects, death dancing around, vaccine hoarding, self-centred surviving efforts, the devastating oxygen shortages in low-income countries, the generation of children deprived of education, loss of jobs and shut-downs, the shattering of fragile economies and collapsing of health systems, it added..
Unfortunately, the people and leaders of the fragile world have not yet realised the ultimate truth of inclusiveness, affection and unity among the human beings for ensuring the human life is healthy, safe and peaceful.
