GENEVA: Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that the world needs to be better prepared to probe the origins of diseases and welcomed the creation of a new World Health Organization advisory group on dangerous pathogens.
"We need to be better equipped when it comes to finding out where diseases and epidemics have originated," she said at a summit organised by the WHO on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the same speech, she also voiced her support for more reliable financing of the U.N. health body and said she supported the creation of an international pandemic treaty.
