The G20 = Health Ministers' Meeting of 20 major countries was held in Indonesia to discuss the establishment of a fund for future infectious disease control based on the lessons learned from the spread of the new coronavirus.
The conference was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on the 20th, combining face-to-face and online, and was attended by about 130 people from G20 countries and WHO = World Health Organization.
Among them, in order to prepare for a global pandemic of new infectious diseases in the future, it is said that it will be necessary to take measures of about 10 billion dollars, or 1.35 trillion yen in Japanese yen, and a fund will be established for that purpose. Was discussed.
In addition, in order to facilitate travel to each country, discussions were held on the creation of a universal system that reads the QR code that records the vaccination history of the new corona.
The G20 plans to hold a meeting of health ministers again in October to elaborate on the details, and WHO Secretary-General Tedros, who had a press conference after the meeting, said, "If another virus attacks now, there will be new confusion. It will happen. It is important to take measures with a sense of speed. "
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