Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the Second Global COVID Virtual Summit on May 12 at the invitation of US President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Summit intends to galvanize new actions to address the continued challenges of the COVID pandemic and build a stronger global health security architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a Ministry of External Affairs release, Prime Minister will deliver his remarks in the opening session of the summit on the theme ‘Preventing Pandemic Fatigue and Prioritizing Preparedness’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The session will be live-streamed from 1830 to 1945 hrs on May 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other participants are co-hosts of the event – Heads of State\/Government of Belize in its capacity as Chair of CARICOM, Senegal as Chair of African Union, Indonesia as President of G20 and Germany as President of G7 respectively. Secretary-General of the United Nations, Director General of World Health Organization and other dignitaries would also participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PM Modi had also participated in the first Global COVID virtual Summit hosted by Biden in September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The release said that India is playing a key role in ongoing global efforts to combat the pandemic by supplying safe and affordable vaccines, medicines, development of low-cost indigenous technologies to test and treat, genomic surveillance, and capacity building for health care workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India is also proactively engaged in multilateral fora with the objective of strengthening and reforming the global health security architecture with WHO at its centre, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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