-China has been engaged in extensive Vaccine cooperation with many
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-Following China’s footsteps, more countries are demonstrating the will to forge unity via shared political goals to tackle global health crisis
BEIJING: Countries in the Asia-Pacific region have pledged to enhance cooperation on COVID-19 Vaccines and Green development under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by forging a closer partnership. The move came as relevant initiatives were launched by 29 countries, including China, Colombia, Indonesia and Pakistan, at the Asia and Pacific High-level Conference on Belt and Road Cooperation held via video link.
The conference was held to forge new consensus among countries in the Asia-Pacific region on jointly fighting the pandemic and promoting sustainable economic recovery, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.
According to details, more than 178 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported globally with over 3.88 million deaths, while the coronavirus variants continue to pose threats.
Concerning cooperation on coronavirus vaccines, a powerful weapon for defeating the pandemic, the Asia-Pacific countries have called for providing more vaccines to the World Health Organization’s COVAX initiative, supporting governments and enterprises to donate or export vaccines at an affordable price to developing countries, as well as transferring relevant technologies, as put forth in the Initiative for Belt and Road Partnership on COVID-19 Vaccines Cooperation.
“Dealing with the havoc in the region and the world caused by COVID-19 is not the responsibility of any single country,” Kin Phea, director-general of the International Relations Institute of Cambodia, told, adding that the initiative’s focus on developing countries is to address the vaccination gap, a key part of ensuring the final success in global anti-pandemic efforts. – Agencies
