Still, we must prepare for the enforcement and supervision of health protocols implementation amid the meeting.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Secretary general of the Health Ministry, Kunta Wibawa Dasa Nugraha, has reviewed preparations in Yogyakarta for the first G20 Health Working Group (HWG) and said the province is ready for hosting the meeting.

The first HWG meeting will take place from March 28–30, 2022.

"Still, we must prepare for the enforcement and supervision of health protocols implementation amid the meeting," he said in a statement received here on Thursday.

Out of the 43 invited countries and international organizations, 13 have confirmed their representatives will attend the meeting in person, he informed.

They will be represented by around 70 foreign delegates and 50 local participants, he said.

The ministry’s secretary general visited Yogyakarta on March 9, 2022, to inspect the preparedness of the region for hosting the meeting.

He informed that a bubble system will be implemented for the meeting, in accordance with the Circular Letter of the COVID-19 Task Force Number 6/2022 on the Implementation of Bubble System Health Protocol in G20 Meetings in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Yogyakarta Provincial Secretary Raden Kadarmanta Baskara Aji said that he will fully support the implementation of the first 2022 G20 HWG in the province.

The agenda for the meeting will be the harmonization of global health protocol standards, he said. The participants of the meeting will be allowed to attend in person or virtually, he added.

In addition to the main agenda, a side event on raising global commitment and increasing sustainable investment for the handling of tuberculosis will be implemented concurrently, he said.

The HWG meeting is themed ‘Reorganizing the Global Health Architecture,’ he added.

The working group will raise three priority issues: building global health system resilience; harmonization of global health protocol standards; as well as expanding global manufacturing and knowledge centers for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, he informed.

A total of 150 meetings and 200 side events will be held in 20 locations throughout Indonesia during its presidency of the grouping.

At least 25 meetings are scheduled to be conducted in Yogyakarta starting from March to October 2022.
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