Source: EABW News
COMESA will develop an online platform for exchanging information on the availability of essential products within the COMESA Member States as part of the response measures to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This was among key decisions made by the extraordinary meeting of the COMESA Council of Ministers.
“The impact of COVID-19 has made it clear that as a region we need to strengthen and integrate regional policies to take into account the adverse social-economic and political impacts and to develop strategies to support and facilitate quick recovery of our economies,” said COMESA Secretary General Chileshe Kapwepwe.
Kapwepwe said the regional guidelines were now critical for a coordinated and harmonized response, to ensure that collective efforts served to reinforce and not undermine each other.
The virtual meeting was convened to approve a harmonized set of regional guidelines developed to facilitate the movement of goods and services across the region during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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