After Covid, is the world well prepared for another pandemic?

After Covid, is the world well prepared for another pandemic?

The world was shaken to its core when the Covid pandemic hit in 2019 killing as many as seven million people across the world. According to experts, no country was prepared enough to deal with the deadly disease or its consequences then. Now, five years later things may have changed. So, how prepared is the world for the next pandemic?

There are vaccine side-effects, but these are much rarer and much less serious than those from the diseases. File image/Reuters