<span style="color: #222222;">India today hosted a Workshop on 'COVID-19 Management: Experience, Good Practices and Way Forward'. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles and Sri Lanka participated in the workshop. Sources said all countries including Pakistan supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposals at the workshop. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The key proposals by Mr Modi include special visas for medical professionals and arrangement for special Air ambulance. He insisted that a regional platform may be created for studies on forecasting future pandemics. He also called for creating a regional network for promoting technology assisted epidemiology.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Sources said all the countries proposed a structured discussion for regional cooperation on these proposals to take them forward. Also all countries, which received vaccines, thanked India and Prime Minister Modi for India's supplies of vaccines and earlier of various medicines, equipment and training. They agreed that there was a need for such cooperation on a regional basis for fighting such pandemics.</span><br />''  <br />