ASEAN Economic Ministers' Meeting in Danang, Vietnam on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
JAKARTA, April 13 - Limited by the need for self-isolating measures, ASEAN leaders will convene a virtual summit this week to propose various initiatives, officials say, as the bloc seeks collective and coordinated action against the COVID-19 pandemic.
She said the ACC was determined to ensure the bloc’s synchronous and intersectoral efforts to combat the viral outbreak find wider implementation among member states. The two meetings Retno mentioned were led by Indonesia’s Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto, who currently leads efforts under the ASEAN Health Ministers’ Meeting as chair.
ASEAN’s traditional response to emergency and crisis situations has been to convene emergency meetings of leaders or relevant ministers to discuss regional solutions. When the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome hit the region in 2003, ASEAN leaders met in Bangkok and rolled out coordinated measures to fight the disease.
As the current ASEAN chair, Vietnam has proposed to set up regional medical and essential goods reserves in case of an emergency, building a common health response based on guidance from the World Health Organization and organizing online drills at the ASEAN Center of Military Medicine on responding to epidemics, Viet Nam News reports.
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