Question: The virtual meeting of G20 Health Minister took place on April 19, 2020. The meeting was chaired by?
(a)European Union
(b)Japan
(c)India
(d)Saudi Arabia
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
- The virtual meeting of the G20 Health Minister took place on April 19, 2020. It was chaired by Saudi Arabia.
- All the member county and European Union participated in the meeting. Dr Harshvardhan, Union Health Minister participated in the meeting representing India.
- The members discussed the issue of COVID 19 and concerns of health and decided to collectively fight the pandemic.
- While some of the countries particularly Japan, Singapore, South Korea have fared well, others are still struggling with COVID-19.
- Highlighting India’s approach in combating COVID-19, Health Minister explained fivefold way of maintaining a continuous situation awareness, pre-emptive and proactive approach, graded response as per continuously evolving scenario, inter-sectoral coordination at all levels, and lastly, but most importantly and creating a people’s movement to combat this disease.
- The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), which is a nation-wide surveillance system for epidemic prone diseases has been activated towards COVID response.
Author: Himanshu Shukla
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