98. With regard to information concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, we would like to thank the Secretariat for all its efforts to make relevant information available to Members. El Salvador has not taken any specific emergency measures pertaining to intellectual property, however, the running of our National Intellectual Property Office was affected by the general suspension of terms and deadlines because of the closure of Government offices. This information was included on the World Intellectual Property Organization's COVID-19 IP Policy Tracker webpage, a link to which has also been included on the World Trade Organization's website. We would like to report that the Decree on the state of emergency in the country expired on 15 July 2020, which meant that terms and deadlines resumed as of 16 June 2020. On the same date, the Office's intellectual property services, including the processing of applications, also resumed under special conditions. We will shortly be sending this information in writing to the WIPO Secretariat, so that it can update its important COVID-19 IP Policy Tracker tool.
