Welcome to Metac-on-air.

I'm Gianluca Paynetti, and I'm joined today via phone by Jesus Ruehda Rodriguez, Metech-Europec-Europeer's

Director of International Affairs. Welcome, Jesus.

Thank you, Jun-Lucah. It's a pleasure to be here.

Jesus, you and I sat down a couple of months ago, precisely on the 13th of February.

And we were already talking about coronavirus, but the world since then has changed a lot.

The coronavirus has been declared a pandemic by the WHO.

It has now more than 2 million cases confirmed worldwide.

And many states across the world have gone into stringent lockdown measures

to contain the spread of this pandemic.

Now we start seeing more and more countries talking about the confinement and about how

do we ease the measures, how we get out of this.

So this is what I want to talk about today with you.

But before we get into that, maybe you can help me retrace a little bit

the last couple of months in terms of what has happened in the industry, what have been the

efforts that the medical technology industry has put in place to support the response against

this pandemic.

Thank you, Jun-Luca.

So when it comes to the response on the pandemic, there has been an awful lot of work going on by all of the sectors concerned.

And basically, we have seen that there are three sectors that have been going into overdrive within medical

technology to help to combat this pandemic so we have the diagnostic space in

order to put together diagnostic tests to be able to detect and understand the

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