GENEVA: More than 25 leaders from “the G20, G7 and from every region” have united in urgent call for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response, chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday (Friday in Manila).

The coronavirus pandemic treaty would be a generational commitment to keeping the world safe from new pathogens with pandemic potential in the future, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

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