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His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow, 04 May 2021, participate in the Friends of Multilateralism’s roundtable on the work of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
This virtual gathering of Heads of State will be co-chaired by the Right Honourable Helen Clark and Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The panel was established in July 2020 by the World Health Organization’s Director-General. It is charged with understanding the chronology of the pandemic, national and international actions and responses to alerts and transmission warnings, distilling lessons, and making evidence-based recommendations.
The Panel has since its first meeting in September 2020 been collecting and analysing evidence to build upon the lessons from previous epidemics and pandemics; establishing an authoritative chronology of how COVID-19 became a global pandemic; understanding the wider health and socio-economic impacts of
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Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that while the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the value of partnership, it also brought into focus the effects of unilateral action and unequal access to resources.
Speaking during the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Roundtable, he pointed out that the panel’s mandate is founded on the conviction that the world acts as a global community to prevent another pandemic of such proportions.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
I am honoured to be part of this roundtable to discuss the work of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. We welcome the work of the Independent Panel in reviewing response systems, identifying gaps and risks, and making specific recommendations on how to address these weaknesses. The mandate of the panel is founded on the firm conviction that we must act now as a gl
Ramaphosa: Greater need for universal health care coverage Updated
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says as we prepare for future pandemics, there s a greater need for universal health care coverage.
He s been speaking during a roundtable with other world leaders on the work done by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. We need to ensure that vaccines and other life-saving treatments are seen and considered as public goods by the world. For this reason either earlier this year the African Union resolved to support the call for a temporary TRIPS waiver at the World Trade Organisation for COVID-19.