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I was not subjected to any of those made an ad out in moscow no but in some of the countries they do some countries require you to go through at least a Temperature Check some countries require you to provide them with a test that was taken. No more than 48 hours before you go i will but those are much fewer china is for instance one of those countries that has very strict requirements ill be going to china in a couple of weeks and im not going to be easy now iran has one of the hardest hit countries in the middle east some experts suggest that you are now in the grips of. A 3rd way if it involves a pandemic and many a high ranking iranian official site succumbed or even died from the virus i know that one of your closest. Friends visors and friends and former colleagues. Sadly died because of it i wonder if you personally have developed any rules or teams to maximize your safety because youre in a high risk drop you have many interactions youre in the risk group for sure. You can only
If you had. Money to spend and you wanted to use that money to underwrite isolation of those people who have been in contact with infected people if you want to get on top of the. The current upsurge in new reporting cases they need to support people in isolation if theyre finding it difficult so most people ive spoken to throughout the spectrum are academics to through to politicians appreciate that the only way that were going to really elude or mitigate peak deaths in the secondary wave is to Contact Trace and support people in isolation so there could be many people who just cannot isolate either because they have dependents or they dont have sufficient space in the house so these people need supporting so thats an important aspect of Contact Tracing this is you know i think one of the main messages that know a 3rd lever that the government has yet to pull in order to prevent a 2nd wave of morbidity and mortality is to get out there and empower and enable Public Health teams not ju
And i want to start you by asking how it has this been demick change the workings of diplomacy and you guys have some conversations like most of us or is it not particularly safe to Exchange Information this way well actually we have to do that and just this morning i participated in the meeting of the conference on interaction and cooperation in asia a confidence building in asia. Video conference. Some 20 more Foreign Ministers were participating in that conference and as you pointed out in your introductory statement. This despite us doesnt recognize ritual for the core strong or enemies its affecting all of us and it shows that we need to come together in order to fight despite us unfortunately the United States. Continues to prevent iran even from buying medicine and vaccine to buy just buy will definitely discuss that in details but let me ask you one more question about the workings of diplomacy because from what you mentioned i understand that when it comes to you know making.
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