Ministers of Health from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have agreed to coordinate their efforts to respond to COVID-19 in the region. The regional bloc has also suspended planned public events ias part of efforts to minimise risks from the coronavirus pandemic. SADC meetings will now be conducted via video or teleconferencing.
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The 39th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in August 2019.
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The main purpose of the meeting was to share existing knowledge and information on the COVID-19 outbreak, which has had devastating global impacts since its outbreak in December 2019, and agree on how to harmonize and coordinate the preparedness and response to COVID-19 in the SADC region. The meeting noted that COVID-19 has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020, with potential significant impacts. The meeting
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