Jakarta, Sept. 4 -- Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, today held a bilateral meeting with H.E. Dr. Florika Fink-Hooijer, Director-General of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (DG-HERA) of the European Commission, at the ASEAN Headquarters/ASEAN Secretariat. The Meeting recalled the cooperation in responding the COVID-19 pandemic and reaffirmed the critical importance of sustaining close cooperation on health security between the two regions.

The Meeting discussed pandemic preparedness and cross-regional response coordination; medical countermeasures, supply chain resilience and manufacturing capacity; health threat surveillance; and partnership in the establishment and operations of the ASEAN Centre fo...