(People's Daily Online, Rio de Janeiro, March 18, reporter Li Xiaoxiao) Sino-Uruguay “COVID-19” Pandemic Prevention and Control Experience Online Exchange Meeting, sponsored by SBS and Uruguay Paysandu Research Center, was held online on March 18. Uruguayan Minister of Public Health Daniel Salinas and Chinese Ambassador to Uruguay Wang Gang attended the meeting, and gave speeches. Public health experts from the two countries shared their respective experience in pandemic prevention and control and medical rescue.
Daniel Salinas said that China and Uruguay had a long history of friendly exchanges, and that China had actively communicated with Uruguay and helped Uruguay in this fight against COVID-19. The vaccine developed by Sinovac Biotech was the first COVID-19 vaccine ordered by Uruguay from abroad, and so far Uruguay had received two batches of the Sinovac vaccine. On behalf of the Uruguayan government, Daniel Salinas also thanked the Chinese government and Chinese Embassy in Uruguay for their active coordination on this issue, and expressed their willingness to learn advanced anti-pandemic experience from China to win this fight against COVID-19 as early as possible. Wang Gang said that the once-in-a-century pandemic was a touchstone of Sino-Uruguay friendship. He also expressed his strong belief that, with the support and guidance of the leaders of both countries, driven by the “Belt and Road” Initiative, Sino-Uruguay strategic partnership certainly would ride on the wind, and achieve new successes in the new era.
At the three-hour exchange meeting, the two sides engaged in full communication. Zhu Renyi, Director of the Department of Disinfection and Infection Control of Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control & Prevention, said that the anti-pandemic achievements made by Shanghai were inseparable from sound emergency response plans, powerful professional teams, and full participation. Albornoz, Chairman of Uruguayan Society for Clinical Infectious Diseases, said that the professional quality of medical staff was very important, and that government decision-making and social participation constituted vital anti-pandemic links.
Chinese experts also introduced China’s experience in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, the grading of the social prevention and control system, the protection of medical staff, the full participation in pandemic control, and the application of TCM. Uruguayan experts talked about their national healthcare system, pandemic prevention and control, nucleic acid testing, medical rescue system, and public health emergency response. Experts from both countries expressed the hope that Sino-Uruguay anti-pandemic cooperation would be further deepened to manage the COVID-19 and maintain regional and global health and safety.
(Executive editor: Cui Yue, Chang Hong)
