(Focus on Boao) Boao New Vision: "Vaccines" and "Passports" Drive the Healthy Silk Road
China News Agency, Boao, April 19 (Reporter Zhang Su) The new crown pneumonia epidemic is still ongoing, and the progress of the new crown vaccine has attracted much attention.
On the 18th, at the "Healthy Silk Road" sub-forum of the Boao Forum for Asia, "vaccine" and "passport" became the key words discussed by the participants.
Yu Xuefeng, founder and chairman of Cansino Biotech, said that the new crown vaccine developed by him that requires only one dose has been tested in 5 countries and conforms to the World Health Organization's trial guidelines. The overall effective rate of patients after vaccination is 60%. The prevention rate is 95%.
"What is the difference between one shot and two shots?" Facing the audience's questions, Yu Xuefeng took the recent epidemic in Ruili, Yunnan as an example, saying that one shot per person is very effective in controlling the epidemic.
Not only is it convenient for migrants, "only one shot" will greatly reduce the workload of medical staff.
Indonesian Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saxono is concerned about vaccination.
He said the country hopes that more people will be vaccinated to ensure that the epidemic is contained.
In his view, to ensure that all people have equal access to vaccination opportunities, more countries need to cooperate.
Jacques Pele (Bai Liang in Chinese), director of the International Committee of the Red Cross's East Asia regional delegation, feels even more impressed by the problem of vaccine distribution.
He said that as a member of the New Coronary Pneumonia Vaccine Implementation Plan (COVAX), the ICRC is concerned about humanitarianism and called for 5% of vaccines to be reserved for countries suffering from war, hunger and other difficulties.
He also mentioned that about 65 million people are unable to obtain vaccines due to anarchy.
Zhang Yuhui, deputy director of the Health Development Research Center of the National Health Commission of China, said that since the outbreak, countries and regions along the “Belt and Road” have relied on the framework and governance mechanism of the Healthy Silk Road to not only play a role in synergizing public health policies, but also To a certain extent, improve global health governance.
In his speech online, former French Prime Minister Raffarin affirmed the combination of health and sustainable development through the “Belt and Road” initiative, and expressed optimism about the future of the healthy Silk Road.
During the event, some participants put forward the idea of "'Silk Road' passport" to promote better cooperation among countries and regions along the "Belt and Road".
In this regard, Bai Liang pointed out that the "passport" involves multiple dimensions such as humanitarianism and politics. It is necessary to balance national and international interests, and all parties need to sit at the negotiating table and discuss together.
"It depends on whether countries and regions along the route can reach a high degree of consensus, and consensus means transparency, fairness, mutual benefit, etc.", Liu Guoen, Dean of the Global Health Development Institute of Peking University, told a reporter from China News Agency. Although there are many challenges, if you can Reaching a relevant mechanism to promote the use of vaccines and benefit cooperation in other fields, "this is a very desirable thing." (Finish)