'One Earth,One Health' effective to deal with pandemic-PM Modi

India is ready to produce over 5 billion Covid vaccine doses by the end of next year to help the world in the fight against the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a G-20 Summit session in Rome on Saturday and stressed the 'One Earth, One Health' vision of collaborative approach in dealing with the deadly disease.Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, said at a press briefing in Rome that Prime Minister Modi had conveyed to the others at the G20 Summit that India is ready to produce five billion Covid-19 vaccine doses by the end of 2022. The prime minister in his intervention at the session on "global economy and global health" also flagged the issue of facilitating international travel and talked about the mechanism of mutual recognition of vaccine certification as a means of achieving this.

Prime Minister Modi expressed satisfaction over the G20's decision to come up with a 15 per minimum corporate tax to make the global financial architecture more "just and fair".  The decision is aimed at ensuring that companies pay a certain amount of tax in countries they are located in, Shringla said. "It is pertinent to mention that it was in 2014 that the prime minister had first proposed the idea of a minimum corporate tax in order to prevent to some extent evasion of taxes," he said. PM Modi also highlighted India's medical supply to over 150 countries and contribution in maintaining the global supply chain during the pandemic. Stressing on the need for resilient global supply chains, Prime Minister Modi spoke about India's bold economic reforms and invited G20 nations to make India their partner in economic recovery and supply chain diversification.

PM Modi emphasised that India had continued to be a "trusted partner in the context of reliable supply chains" despite the challenges of the pandemic. He stressed on the need for resilient global supply chains and spoke about India's economic reforms. At the summit, PM Modi invited the world's biggest countries to make India their partner in economic recovery and supply chain diversification, Harsh Vardhan Shringla stated. Modi also interected with the US president Joe Biden on the sidelines of the summit.

Saturday was a busy day for PM Modi . He met various leaders during the summit. MEA has tweet a glips of PM Modi's engagements. 

As we are looking forward to Day 3 of PM @narendramodi’s engagements in Rome, here is a quick glimpse of the highlights from yesterday ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/IFEjD9Rqeu

— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) October 31, 2021

Italy has been holding presidency of the G20 since December last year. The forum has met every year since 1999 and includes, since 2008, a yearly summit with the participation of the respective heads of state and government. This year, the summit was centred around the theme 'People, Planet, Prosperity'.