Global public health security has always been one of the key topics in multilateral cooperation, but particularly so since the outbreak of COVID-19, which has highlighted the importance of global public health security. This panel explored how to cope with potential pandemics in future against the backdrop of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic today.

COVID-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with 120 million confirmed cases and a death toll of more than a million people. Although the number of infections in some regions and countries is still on the rise, newly developed vaccines will, to some extent, help turn the tide of the pandemic.

The panellists agreed that cooperation is at the core of safeguarding global public health security, requiring countries to work together to prevent a second wave of the pandemic. George F. Gao said that the existing global public health system has shifted its traditional hierarchical structure to a network structure, making cooperation among various organizations more important as they become closely interlinked.

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