G20 Health Ministers Meeting in Saudi Arabia

Minister of Health and Family Welfare of India has participated in the video conference of the Health Ministers of G20 countries. During that conference, Forge cooperation and mutually respectful and useful collaborations to deal with COVID-19 disease.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

The 19-member countries apart from European Union (EU) of G20 are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America and India.

The global community has tackled threats to the health of the people, by a collective sense of purpose, support and collaboration with each other.

The meeting called for cooperation between nations to attain normalcy.

In the meeting, the Minister highlighted India’s fivefold approach to combat COVID-19 namely:

(i) Maintaining a continuous situation awareness,

(ii) Pre-emptive and proactive approach,

(iii) Graded response as per continuously evolving scenario,

(iv) Inter-sectoral coordination at all levels, and lastly, but most importantly

(v) Creating a people’s movement to combat the coronavirus disease.