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Outbreak Readiness and Business Impact – White Paper
January 21 , 2019
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- The World Economic Forum (WEF) has recently released the report on ‘The Outbreak Readiness and Business Impact’.
- The white paper on the report was released by the WEF in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute.
- The white paper details why and how the business community should contribute more to manage the threat and impact of infectious disease on societies.
- The important findings of the white paper report are,
- The number and kind of infectious disease outbreaks have increased significantly over the past 30 years.
- The world has witnessed 200 epidemic events per year since 2011.
- Pandemics will be the cause of average annual economic losses of 0.7% of global GDP i.e. $ 570 billion.
- This is a threat similar in scale to that estimated for climate change in the coming decades.
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