Countries should do much more together to prepare for next pandemic, says Singapore PM at Commonwealth leaders' meeting

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'There is much more that we need to do together to improve our pandemic preparedness,' Lee Hsien Loong said.

This includes working together to raise public health preparedness and response capabilities at the country level, PM Lee said during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting held in Kigali, Rwanda.

PM Lee noted that in many developing countries, people are still not sufficiently vaccinated against the coronavirus. "We must therefore start now, to build capacity, and get ourselves better prepared for the next pandemic. This is an important area for international cooperation," he said.He held up two multilateral efforts that he said closed some gaps in the global response to the current pandemic.

While Covid-19 has exposed the weakness of global supply chains and shaken countries' confidence in globalisation, PM Lee cautioned against protectionism and economic policies that lead to greater economic fragmentation that leaves everyone worse off.

 

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