Pandemic calls for better cooperation says Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 7 - The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for more effective cooperation between countries, President Sergio Mattarella told the Zambian National Assembly Thursday.
    "Africa, like Europe and Asia, has been hit hard, not only for the sad victim count, but because the global crisis linked to the pandemic has weakened a process of progress," he said.
    "The need to overcome the health emergency and its heavy socio-economic consequences has placed at the centre of world debate, for the first time, issues like universal access to vaccines to safeguard health and the consequences on the more fragile economies, imposing new and more effective ways of cooperation".
    Mattarella added that wars and crises like the climate one were causing fresh migrations, and said that Europe and Africa had a common destiny. (ANSA).