Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part withinside the 2d worldwide digital summit on Covid-19 on Thursday being hosted with the aid of using US president Joe Biden, the overseas affairs ministry stated in a assertion on Wednesday.
The PM had additionally participated withinside the first worldwide summit hung on September 2021.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part withinside the Second Global COVID Virtual Summit on May 12 on the invitation of the President of the USA, Joseph R Biden Jr,” the MEA stated in a assertion on Wednesday.
“The Summit intends to provoke new moves to cope with the continuing demanding situations of the Covid pandemic and construct a more potent worldwide fitness safety structure,” it stated.
According to the assertion, the PM will supply comments withinside the establishing consultation of the summit at the subject matter of ‘Preventing Pandemic Fatigue and Prioritising Preparedness’.
“India is gambling a key function in ongoing worldwide efforts to fight the pandemic with the aid of using offering secure and less costly vaccines, medicines, improvement of low-price indigenous technology to check and treat, genomic surveillance, and ability constructing for fitness care workers,” the assertion read.
“India is likewise proactively engaged in multilateral fora with the goal of strengthening and reforming the worldwide fitness safety structure with WHO at its centre,” it added.
The summit may also be attended with the aid of using heads of state/authorities of Belize in its ability 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 different dignitaries could additionally take part.
The Caribbean Community is an intergovernmental agency of 15 member states withinside the Caribbean location having the number one goal to sell monetary integration and cooperation some of the members.
India recorded 2,505 new Covid-19 instances and fifty two deaths on Wednesday, in step with fitness ministry data. While the overall quantity of instances stands at 43,112,690, the overall deaths pronounced are 522,864. The general quantity of recoveries stands at 42,557,939, in step with the ministry data.