INDIA, March 27 -- Top health professionals and officials from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries held a video conference late Thursday night where India proposed launching an electronic platform to share information on the pandemic.
Member countries discussed their experience of new coronavirus outbreak, and how to carry forward collaboration in the joint fight against COVID-19 at the ground level, an official statement issued on Friday by India's Ministry of External Affairs said.
The SAARC is a regional grouping comprising Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka comprising an estimated population of 1.9 billion - or a quarter of the global population, mak...