The Coronavirus Pandemic: Global Challenges Requires Global Cooperation

... same funding, political interest and cross-border cooperation as other 21st-century threats such as climate change and cyber attacks. Many people in Russia have voiced similar doubts during the pandemic, referring to the continuous downsizing of the healthcare system over the decade prior to the outbreak, plus the reluctance of several governors to pay agreed bonuses to the medical personnel of coronavirus hospitals, despite a direct order by President Vladimir Putin. International Cooperation is Indispensable As noted by a participant at the Security Dialogue, humankind has faced 10 pandemics in the last 100 years (all caused, notably, by encapsulated RNA viruses)—and two of these have taken place since 2009. If,...