In his three interventions made during the meeting, Mr Ong spoke about Singapore’s COVID-19 experience as a city-state, emphasising the importance of strengthening health emergency preparedness in an urban setting.
He also called on countries to keep global supply chains open, and to avoid a situation where different parts of the world recognise different vaccines, which will divide the global people’s network.
STRONG PRIMARY CARE SYSTEM NEEDED
In his first intervention, Mr Ong highlighted the different experiences of countries dealing with the pandemic, in particular Singapore's challenges.
Mr Ong detailed Singapore's vaccination take-up rates, noting that the country's main challenge was "persuading the people who needed vaccines the most to get vaccinated", namely the seniors.
The vaccination rate for seniors above 70 in the country now stand at 88 per cent, when it used to be between 60 and 70 per cent.
"And therein we realised our weakness," said Mr Ong.
"Our weakness was our primary care system. To get the most vulnerable members of our society to get vaccinated, you need a strong primary care system to persuade them. So when we think about other countries, the problem will be multi-fold."
Mr Ong said that a strong international system is thus needed to build up the healthcare response for the next pandemic, and urgently get going the reforms recommended by the G20 High Level Independent Panel to strengthen multilateralism in healthcare.
This would in turn strengthen the support for WHO to play its key role at the centre of global health security.
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