The Indian Prime Minister has addressed the Second Global Covid-19 Summit.<\/span><\/p>\n Organized by: <\/b>United States (as first COVID Summit Chair), Belize (as CARICOM Chair), Germany (holding the G7 Presidency), Indonesia (holding the G20 Presidency) and Senegal (as African Union Chair).<\/span><\/p>\n Aim<\/b>: To galvanize <\/span>new actions to address the continued challenges of the pandemic and build a stronger global health security architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n Theme: <\/b>Preventing Pandemic Fatigue and Prioritizing Preparedness.<\/span><\/p>\n Firstly,<\/b> India adopted a <\/span>people-centric strategy to combat the pandemic <\/b>and has made the highest ever allocation for its health budget this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Secondly<\/b>, India was running the<\/span> largest vaccination campaign<\/b> in the world and had vaccinated close to ninety percent of its adult population and more than fifty million children.<\/span><\/p>\n Thirdly,<\/b> Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (Insacog)<\/b><\/a>, a national multi-agency consortium of genome sequencing laboratories established in 2020 would soon be extended to neighboring countries.<\/span><\/p>\n Fourthly,<\/b> India has used<\/span> traditional medicine extensively<\/b> and has laid the foundation for a WHO Center for Traditional Medicine<\/a> in India to make this knowledge available to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>India to expand genome sequencing network to neighborhood: PM Modi<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> Indian Express<\/b> on<\/span> 13th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Indian Prime Minister has addressed the Second Global Covid-19 Summit. What is the Second Global Covid-19 Summit? Organized by: United States (as first COVID Summit Chair), Belize (as CARICOM Chair), Germany (holding the G7 Presidency), Indonesia (holding the G20 Presidency) and Senegal (as African Union Chair). Aim: To galvanize new… Continue reading Second Global Covid-19 Summit – India to expand genome sequencing network to neighborhood: PM Modi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1305,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-184251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704870088},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Second Global Covid-19 Summit?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key highlights from the Indian PM address at the summit?<\/b><\/h5>\n