A  Professor of Virology and Director of the Institute of Vi­rology, Charite's Berlin, Dr Christian Drosten, has called on stakeholders in the health sector to reflect on the lessons learned during the COVID-19 in order to prepared adequately towards future pandemics.

According to him, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic brought in its wake a number of challenges that confronted health­care delivery worldwide as such, it was important for countries to draw on some of measures that were adopted during the period to inform such future occurrences.

Dr Drosten made the call when he delivered a lecture at Kingfisher Science Salon Series, organised by the German Embassy in Accra last Wednesday.

This year's lecture was on the topic: 'Corona quo vadis State of Play and Challenges Ahead' and was attended by major stakehold­ers in the health sector.