the health Ministers of G20 countries held a meeting. Via videoconference, they discussed measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. The head of the Ministry of health Michael Murashko urged to support the efforts of the world health organization in this direction.
“there is a need to improve the global response mechanism to the challenges of infectious diseases. Another important in this regard, the issue – access and availability of medical products,” the statement published on the website of the Ministry of health.
Participants of the meeting discussed the necessary measures to enhance pandemic preparedness, and also questions the use of digital solutions during the current and future pandemics. In addition to the countries “big twenty”, the meeting was attended by representatives of several States not included in the group, as well as international and regional organizations, including who and the world Bank. Following the meeting, the participants recognized that “pandemic COVID-19 highlighted the systemic deficiencies in health systems”, – with reference to the statement, RIA Novosti reported.
Flash COVID-19 was first recorded in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of December 2019. And already on March 11, the world health organization announced a pandemic of the coronavirus, which has already covered most of the world. USA – the leader in the number of affected people.
