More pharmaceutical cooperation under SCO needed, officials say

Officials and observers on Thursday called for deepening cooperation in the pharmaceutical industries of member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO, in a bid to improve the healthcare and wellbeing of people amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the SCO Pharmaceutical Cooperation Development Conference, Farhod Arziev, Uzbekistan's ambassador to China, said in his speech via video link that cooperation in the pharmaceutical industries under the SCO framework has achieved a lot.

He spoke highly of the cooperation during a time when the world is still facing the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.