Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has warned of a possible new pandemic, which will arise from a factor different from the coronavirus family.
According to Arabiya Net, Gates said advances in medical technology should help the world do a better job of combating it, if investment in that technology was increased now.
Gates stressed: We will have another pandemic, and the next time the virus will be different.
And two years after the outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic, Gates said that the worst effects have faded as a large number of the world's population has acquired a certain level of immunity, as the severity of the virus has diminished. with an omicron variable, according to CNBC.
Gates believes that the chance of developing serious illness, which is primarily associated with the elderly and developing obesity or diabetes, is now significantly reduced due to exposure to previous infections.
It is already too late to reach the WHO's goal of vaccinating 70% of the world's population by mid-2022, with 61.9% of the world's population having received a single dose, he added. At least from the COVID-19 vaccine.
He indicated that the world must move faster in the future to develop and distribute vaccines, calling on governments to invest from now.
The cost of preparing for the next pandemic will not be great, he said, if we are rational. Next time we'll catch up early.
Gates, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has partnered with the UK's Wellcome Trust to donate $300 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which has helped in shaping the Covax Program for Delivering Vaccines to Low and Middle Income Countries.
His program aims to raise $3.5 billion in an effort to cut the time needed to develop a new vaccine to just 100 days.
