UN chief of staff calls on Asia to increase security networks | Labor Rights

Asia-Pacific countries should see the epidemic as yesterday in order to strengthen their small security networks, said a UN official.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, International Labor Organization (ILO) Director General Guy Ryder said COVID-19 has revealed the need for “strong” security in the region, where border restrictions and business closures continue to undermine. lives two years in the plague.

“The failure of others to do so or not to do enough, I think, has been part of the challenge to do and to be resilient in dealing with the COVID epidemic,” Ryder said.

Ryder added that while it was not his place to judge whether the response to health care in some countries was better than others, he believed that Asia-Pacific should be better prepared for “future risks” that may arise due to public health or other risks.

“Where you have restrictions, where you live where people can’t get to work, can’t work, at all or normally, then you have to have ways to pay for human resources, to support businesses,” said the UN chief of staff.

Many Asian-Pacific countries spend less than 2 percent of all household items on social security, including medical care, according to the IL20 2020 report, which is the world’s 11th lowest rate.

Many Asia-Pacific countries have reported fewer deaths than their Western counterparts during the epidemic, but regional reforms and trade restrictions have brought significant economic and economic benefits.

Although the emergence of the Omicron genus is much higher with other Western countries becoming infected – due to the spread of this genus and its less severe prevalence than in previous cases – many. The Asia-Pacific economy has changed or delayed the process to reopen.

In recent weeks, economists including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore have strengthened their borders. Mainland China, Hong Kong and South Korea have also reintroduced domestic reforms from school closures to closures and business time.

Although the vaccine contained a number of vaccines, the Asia-Pacific region was largely closed to the possibility of new vaccines.

In October, travel in the region dropped by 92.8 percent compared with the same period in 2019, while air travel in Europe and North America dropped by 51 percent and 57 percent, respectively.

Ryder said, however, that the epidemic would not bring about an end to globalization and interdependence in Asia-Pacific.

“My view is that we are not about to end interdependence, we are not on a path to internationalization, and I do not want to see these things, and I do not think it would be useful to all people. I think we can imagine,” he said.

“I do not see that we are not being compared, if you will, on the narrow path or escape, not because of the impact on the COVID labor market in the world of work.”

‘The right way’

Ryder said that although the global economy is “thriving,” he also said that the epidemic recovery was uncertain and inconsistent.

In his 2022 ideas published earlier this week, ILO predicts that global operations will not return to the epidemic until 2023. The UN estimates that this year’s reduction in working hours will be the equivalent of 52 million full-time jobs, down from previous predictions, and significant inconsistencies. . among the nations “to magnify and extend the scope of the crisis”.

“While those in the richest countries can expect a lot of life, the amount of production they already knew before the epidemic, this is not the case with developing countries, it is not the same with developing countries,” Ryder said.