Like researchers, world leaders need to combat COVID-19 together

Praising the researchers, a report published on a leading international weekly journal Nature said tens of thousands of researchers across the world have come forward and sparing their time and ideas to come up with a permanent solution for the life-taking virus.

Hyderabad:The COVID-19 pandemic so far has claimed over 47,000 lives with more than 9,37,000 people have been tested positive with the virus globally. At this critical point of time, like researchers, the world leaders need to come forward and work shoulder to shoulder to eliminate the pandemic which has brought the world to a standstill, cautioned a leading international weekly journal Nature.

Praising the researchers, the weekly has said tens of thousands of researchers across the world have come forward and sparing their time and ideas to come up with a permanent solution for the life-taking virus.

However, the report accused the Prime Ministers and Presidents of different countries of not paying serious attention to the matter.

World leaders must respond to the pandemic like the way they had responded to the 2008 financial crisis, the report read.

The report, however, went on praising university-based laboratories like Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the National University of Colombia in Bogotá for carrying out COVID-19 tests.

Meanwhile, an online platform named Crowdfight COVID-19 established by the researchers to find out volunteers for research-related tasks is gaining popularity. So far, the platform has reported a registration of over 35,000 volunteers.

With the number of affected persons and deaths due to the virus increasing every day, it is the right time for the world leaders to step up together and follow the footprints of the researchers in the fight against coronavirus, read the article.