Chinese Foreign Ministry briefs on G20 special summit

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is holding a media conference about the G20 special summit on COVID-19.

Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the G20 summit via video conference from Beijing. The summit focused on coordinating a global response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The video conference, the first of its kind in G20 summit history, was President Xi's first international meeting since the pandemic began.

More than 480,000 cases of COVID-19 have been reported around the world and 21,000 people have died of the disease, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

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