On Tuesday 20 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) member states adopted by consensus the first-ever ‘global agreement on pandemics’ (see EUROPE B13623A4). The decision, taken at the 78th World Health Assembly, “culminates more than three years of intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, and driven by the goal of making the world safer from – and more equitable in response to – future pandemics”,...