NEW DELHI: Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday participated through video conferencing in a meeting of the Health Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to discuss how to combat the COVID-19 challenge and said India had left no stone unturned to check the deadly virus from spreading.
Addressing the SCO Health Ministers, Dr Harsh Vardhan said Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally monitored the situation arsing from the spread of the deadly virus and ensured a ”pre-emptive, proactive and graded response” to the pandemic.
He said India took up the challenge posed by the pandemic with the ”highest level of political commitment” and Prime Minister Modi personally monitored the situation and ensured pre-emptive, proactive, and graded responses, leaving no stone unturned to contain the deadly virus from spreading.
India’s recovery rate is 63.45 per cent and mortality 2.3 per cent, among the lowest in the world. India had taken several major steps including issuing travel advisories and community-based surveillance as pre-emptive measures.
The meeting discussed the achievements of the SCO member countries in dealing with the COVID-19 virus and further actions to be taken to check the pandemic.
The SCO, a Eurasian political, economic and security alliance, was formed in June 2001 in Shanghai by Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India and Pakistan later joined the SCO as full members in June 2017 at a Summit meeting in Kazakhstan capital Astana (now Nur-Sultan). (AGENCIES)
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