DOHA, 19 Jul – RIA Novosti. Health Ministers of the countries “big twenty” gathered Sunday on the initiative of the Chairman of the group of Saudi Arabia on a virtual meeting to discuss joint measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, said in a press release on the website of the organizers of meetings in the framework of the G20.
With the Saudi side, the meeting is chaired by the health Minister Tawfiq al-Rabia.
“health Ministers of the G20 countries meet to develop joint measures and coordinated action to combat the pandemic COVID-19, and to deal with its effects. Health Ministers of the G20 countries, as well as their deputies and the working groups agreed on concrete steps to advance a coordinated global response to the pandemic COVID-19, including those associated with the exchange of key medical data, accelerating research and enhancing international cooperation”, – said the organizers of the meeting.
it also involved Spain, Singapore, Jordan and Switzerland, representatives of regional and international organizations, particularly the world health organization and the world Bank.
the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, there have been recorded more than 2.1 million cases of infection, more than 146 thousand people died.
Current data on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager.of the Russian Federation.
