which GISAID was ultimately compelled by an arbitration tribunal to pay out more than $1M, in April 2010 the Federal Republic of Germany announced during the 7th International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Hanoi, Vietnam, that GISAID had entered into a cooperation agreement with the German government, making Germany the long-term host of the GISAID platform. Under the agreement, Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection BMELV, will ensure the sustainability of the initiative by providing through its Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) the technical hosting facilities of the GISAID platform and EpiFlu™ database, located in Bonn. Germany's Federal Institute for Animal Health the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) located on the Isle of Riems, will ensure the plausibility and curation of scientific data in GISAID to meet scientific standards. On January 10, 2020, the first SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences were released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and shared through GISAID. Throughout 2020, huge volumes of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences sampled and analyzed all over the globe have been added to the GISAID database, rapidly shared by laboratories around the world. The AHF Global Public Health Institute at the University of Miami and GISAID announced in 2022 a collaboration on genetic sequencing, with AHF providing funding for sequencing projects and GISAID leveraging established educational programs. During Indonesia’s 2022 Presidency of the G20, its Finance Minister Sri Mulyani and Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin co-chaired the G20 Joint Finance Health Task Force and discussed with G20 member countries a concept called GISAID+ (plus) to "improve the response in handling of the emergence of new pathogens that may trigger the next pandemic identified in the world". GISAID+ would be more diverse, and not only for influenza but also mpox (monkeypox) and other pathogens. Australia’s Minister of Health Mark Butler commented on "frameworks that have been so important globally during the pandemic, such as the GISAID Initiative". G20 and partners like GISAID are considering ways to improve genomic surveillance and how to share reliable data. GISAID’s President confirms that the proposed expansion of scope can be implemented, so that non-influenza pathogens like Zika, Chikungunya, dengue, tuberculosis, mpox, and others can be included in GISAID’s platform. Database for SARS-CoV-2 genomes GISAID maintains the world's largest repository of SARS-CoV-2 sequences. From initially sharing the first complete genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 on January 10, 2020,