WHO Members to Start Drafting Plan to Deal With New Pandemics
- Goal is to vote on an international agreement in 2024
- Countries still disagree on need for legally binding treaty
A resident registers at a vaccination point in the Egoli township of Cape Town, South Africa, on Nov. 30.
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World Health Organization member countries voted to start drafting an international agreement to help avoid future pandemics as more cases of the new omicron strain of Covid-19 popped up around the world.
The WHO’s members approved a proposal Wednesday that set a deadline of 2024 to try to implement such a measure. They didn’t resolve the biggest disagreement, however: whether the accord should be a legally-binding treaty.