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Global Health Security Index 2021

December 14 , 2021 875 days 782 0
  • The Global Health Security (GHS) Index 2021 was jointly released by non-profits Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Centre for Health Security.
  • The GHS Index 2021 is the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capacities of 195 countries to prepare for epidemics and pandemics.
  • The world’s overall performance on the GHS Index score slipped to 38.9 (out of 100) in 2021, from a score of 40.2 in 2019.
  • This, even as infectious diseases are expected to have the greatest impact on the global economy in the next decade.
  • The report showed that India has slipped by 0.8 points since 2019.
  • According to the GHS Index 2021, all countries remains unprepared for future epidemic and pandemic threats.

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