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The United Cities and Local Government (UCLG) for Asia and the Pacific have come up with a joint strategy to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, its chairperson stated. UCLG President Tri Rismaharini, currently Surabaya mayor, spoke of having held a limited meeting via teleconference with UCLG-Aspac members at the Surabaya City Hall on Thursday.

"We believe the COVID-19 pandemic can be handled as soon as possible so that matters can return to normalcy, and we can meet together directly," she noted as quoted by Antara.

The UCLG-Aspac members participating in the limited meeting comprised UCGL-Aspac Secretary-General Bernadia Irawati, Chair of UCLG Standing Committee of Women in Local Governments Chen Yini, Mayor of South Korea's Jeonju Kim Seung-soo, and Mayor of the Philippines' Iriga Madelaine Alfelor. The other participants were Malaysia's Subang Jaya Mayor Noraini Binti Roslan, Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance of Japan's Keio University Dr. Rajib Shaw, and Head of Incheon ONEA-GETI, UNDRR, Sanjaya Bhatia. Hence, Rismahirini has positively welcomed the launch of condensed guidance by local governments in Asia as one of the instruments to support the strategy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in their respective cities. (ANTARA)