Moscow offers to establish a mechanism for antipandemic interaction under the auspices of the East Asian Summit (you). This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin while performing in the framework of you, the quotation leads TASS.
He also promised that the Russian side would continue to send free tests and reagents to diagnose coronavirus infection, including for free. Politician thanked other countries for helping to combat COVID-19 and vaccine production.
October 21 at the plenary session as part of the XVIII Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club Putin compared mortality among contaminated coronavirus with losses in the First World War. The President recalled that more than 4.9 million people died from complications of pneumonia COVID-19.
According to the University of John Hopkins, around the world more than 244.6 million people are infected with a virus.