Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the second global virtual summit in Covid-19 on Thursday organized by US President Joe Biden, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement on Wednesday.
PM also participated in the first Global Summit held in September 2021.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the second Global Covid Virtual Covid Summit on May 12 at the invitation of the US President, Joseph R Biden Jr.,” MEA said in a statement on Wednesday.
“The Summit intends to galvanize new actions to overcome the continuous challenges of Pandemi Covid and build a stronger global health security architecture,” he said.
According to the statement, the PM will comment on the opening session of the Summit with the theme ‘Preventing Pandemic Fatigue and Prioritizing Readiness’.
India plays an important role in the ongoing global effort to fight Pandemic by supplying safe and affordable vaccines, medicines, development of low-cost original technology to test and care for, genome supervision, and capacity building for health care workers,” the statement Read.
India is also proactively involved in multilateral forums with the aim of strengthening and reforming global health security architecture with WHO at its center, “he added.
The Summit will also be attended by the Head of State/Government of Belize in his capacity as the Chair of Caricom, Senegal as Chair of the African Union, Indonesia as President of G20 and Germany each as President of G7. Secretary General of the United Nations, Director General of World Health Organizations and other high officials will also participate.
The Caribbean community is an inter -government organization consisting of 15 member countries in the Caribbean region that has the main goal to promote economic integration and cooperation among members.
India recorded 2,505 new Covid-19 cases and 52 deaths on Wednesday, according to data from the Ministry of Health. While the total number of cases reached 43,112,690, the total reported death was 522,864. The total number of recovery was established at 42,557,939, according to Ministry’s data.
