Prime Minister Scott Morrison lobbies world leaders to introduce a body with wide-reaching inspection powers, with the goal of preventing another pandemic.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seeking to build an international coalition to give the World Health Organisation — or another body — powers equivalent to those of a weapons inspector to avoid another catastrophic pandemic.Mr Morrison is pushing for a body with inspection powers to monitor disease outbreaks
The Australian Government is unsure if the WHO is the best option, as each of the 194 member states have veto power over reforms Mr Morrison has pitched the proposal to several world leaders in recent days, including United States President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.
Australia is keen to ensure the lessons from the COVID-19 outbreak are not forgotten, especially the WHO's tardy declaration of the coronavirus pandemic.There has been widespread international concern that China not only, but had undue influence over the WHO, which did not declare the outbreak a global pandemic until March 11 — a fortnight after Australia declared it a pandemic.
"The actions that the Australian Government have taken and that included getting out well ahead of the World Health Organisation at Dr [Brendan] Murphy's … very insightful advice," Mr Morrison said on February 27.
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