Bill Gates claims the Covid pandemic set world progress on other diseases back decades in the space of just 25 weeks.The co-founder of Microsoft made the claim in a new book and said governments had to "pull people and money away from other priorities" to battle the pandemic.He added that vaccination rates in 2020 dropped to levels last seen in the 1990s, which will cause problems for future generations.
The business giant said rich countries, such as the UK, the United States, and European nations, should now invest in strengthening world healthcare to be better prepared for another pandemic.Writing in How To Avoid A Climate Disaster, Gates said: "Globally, Covid-19 has undone decades of progress on poverty and disease."As governments.
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