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VIVA – In the B20 International Advocacy Caucus (IAC) First Meeting which was held on last Thursday, the Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, Anindya Bakrie said that currently there are more than six million cases and 155,000 deaths from COVID-19 in Indonesia.
"Indonesia has made remarkable progress in fighting COVID-19, where nearly 80 percent of its population has been fully vaccinated," Anindya said, Thursday 7 April 2022.
In order to support further treatment efforts, Anindya who also CEO and President Director of PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk emphasized that global expansion of prevention and primary care is needed, to build global resilience and preparedness against future pandemics.
According to him, COVID-19 has exposed widespread injustice between northern and southern countries globally. This is particularly the case in such areas as the capacity to develop, produce and disseminate vaccines and therapeutic treatments.
Direktur Utama dan CEO PT Bakrie & Brothers Tbk (BNBR), Anindya Novyan Bakrie.
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"Future pandemic preparedness also hinges on the ability to monitor and detect new variants and pathogens, to enable better responses such as through genome sequencing technologies," he said.
Similar efforts are needed to combat many other diseases that affect millions of people, such as tuberculosis and dengue fever. In Indonesia, there are about 500,000 new cases of TBC each year and 175,000 deaths caused by it.
As Indonesia's representative at the IAC, Anindya believed that this country could be a leader in overcoming this inequality, by expanding its capacity through a new science hub in the southern hemisphere to complement the existing hub in the north.
"Of course, to achieve this requires funding, technology and human resources, requires international cooperation and solidarity, as well as contributions from the global business community."
In an effort to increase ambition for global health action, this year's G20 Indonesia Presidency should be remembered as a fantastic opportunity to give birth to a legacy, where everyone can benefit from a global center of health and science.
"Because global health is at the core of the global recovery, and when we recover together, we will recover stronger," he said.
