FUTURE diseases spreading from animals to humans like Covid is ‘inevitable’ and must be prepared for.
Those were the watchwords from Matt Hancock, as he met with the Oxford Mail today at the G7 Summit, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford University.
The health secretary said: “We need to make sure we build now the early warning systems that will help protect the world from anything like this from ever happening again.
"Future diseases that spread from animals to humans are inevitable. The question is how we can be better prepared as a world so it doesn’t have the impact this one has had.”