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Nikkei/FT communicable disease meeting discusses how to prepare for future crisis

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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus makes his opening remarks at the eighth Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference. 

RURIKA IMAHASHI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Nikkei and the Financial Times on Wednesday hosted the eighth Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference in Tokyo. The two-day conference is meant to discuss how to prepare for the future pandemic by probing structural challenges revealed by COVID-19.

The aim of the conference is to shed light on issues that emerged during the coronavirus epidemic and discuss how to leverage those lessons learned and how to respond quickly to the crisis in the future.

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