Japan COVID adviser seeks better pandemic response at China confab

Japan's top coronavirus adviser called Thursday for a better response to the next infectious disease pandemic at an international conference held in southwestern China's Yunnan Province, saying a "robust crisis management network" needs to be established in normal times.Shigeru Omi, who headed a government panel on the novel coronavirus, told the gathering aimed at sharing COVID-19 knowledge that Japan had "not learned sufficiently" from the lessons of the 2009 new flu pandemic.Japan had also seen its health care system overstretched due to such factors as a fewer number of health care staf…READ FULL ARTICLE