COVID-19 pandemic could have been prevented but due to a lack of world leadership, an outbreak turned into a global health catastrophe that has killed more than 3.3 million people, according to a high-level independent report released Wednesday.The report, commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), called February 2020 a “lost month of opportunity.” Instead of preparing for a pandemic, many countries instead decided to use the “wait and see approach.”And due to a “lack of global leadership and coordination,” with “geopolitical tensions and nationalism,” the report said there was a lost opportunity to keep the virus under control.