What’s the true toll of Covid-19? | Inside Story
It's the most defining health crisis of our times. No matter where we are in the world, coronavirus has changed the way we live. And now for the first time, we know more people died because of it, than governments were reporting. On Thursday, the World Health Organization revealed its first, most comprehensive estimate. It said 14-point-9 million people died in the first 24 months of the pandemic. The W.H.O. says it's a wake up call for all countries to invest in data and their healthcare systems to make them resilient to crises. So what lessons should be learned? Presenter: Adrian Finighan Guests: Bharat Pankhania – Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School. Azeddine Ibrahimi – Professor of Medical Biotechnology at the Rabat Medical School and Director of Medbiotech. T. Sundararaman – Health Systems Expert and a former Professor and Head of the School of Health System Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #InsideStory #COVID19
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