World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed regret that no agreement could be reached on a pandemic treaty at the UN body’s annual meeting, which started in Geneva on Monday. But he expressed hope on a future agreement. “No one said multilateralism is easy, but there is no other way,” Tedros told the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s decision-making body. Signing the treaty was to have marked the meeting’s highpoint. Negotiators failed to reach a consensus on sensitive subjects such as the distribution of medicines, protective materials and vaccines in …