ArmInfo. The Eurasian Economic Commission has created a coordinating council to monitor the situation with the spread of coronavirus. This was reported by the EEC press service.
According to the source, chairman of the EEC Board, on March 19 Mikhail Myasnikovich, issued an order to establish an interim coordinating council to monitor the situation related to coronavirus infection. The Council was created to assist the governments of the EAEU countries in the fight against coronavirus and to develop agreed measures and recommendations.
The interim coordination council will provide mechanisms for the mutual exchange of information in the EAEU countries. To this end, it is planned to post information on all measures taken on the official website of the EAEU and to facilitate the work and implementation of decisions of the Council of Heads of Authorized Bodies in the field of sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population of the Union countries. In addition, based on the results of monitoring and information exchange, the council will develop proposals and recommendations, submit them to the chairman of the EEC Board and, if necessary, for consideration at meetings of the board and committee of the commission. The interim coordination council included members of the EEC Board (ministers): on customs cooperation Nurlan Akmatov, on domestic markets, informatization, information and communication technologies Gegham Vardanyan, on integration and macroeconomics Sergey Glazyev, on economics and financial policy Timur Zhaksylykov, on technical regulation Victor Nazarenko and trade- Andrey Slepnev.
Earlier, the ECE introduced a set of business support measures designed to help offset the negative consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. The EEC also decided to nullify duties on medical products that are used to combat COVID-19.
Currently, the following number of cases of coronavirus has been registered in other EAEU countries: in Russia - 199 people, in Armenia - 136, in Belarus - 69, in Kazakhstan - 49, in Kyrgyzstan - 6.
