To end the pandemic in 2022, G7 leaders to donate 1 billion vaccines collectively
With the world is watching the Cornwall, the Group of Seven (G7) leaders, will officially sign the ‘Carbis Declaration’, on the second day of the G7 Summit, i.e., today, Saturday, June 12, 2021, which will include a series of measures to ensure that pandemic like Coronavirus (COVID-19) is never repeated.
G7 nations, which comprises of United Kingdom (U.K.), United States (USA), France, Germany, Japan and Italy and Canada, will also announce to collectively provide 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine in an effort to end the pandemic in 2022.
They will promise to use all their resources in an effort to ensure the devastation caused by COVID-19 is never repeated.
The Summit which is being held at Carbis Bay, St. Ives, Cornwall, U.K., was opened by the Prime Minister of U.K. – Boris Johnson. In his opening speech, he made a plea to tackle global inequality. The G7 leaders also pledged to ensure that the time needed to develop vaccines comes to under 100 days.
Taking it to twitter, Boris Johnson tweeted,
The #CarbisBayDeclaration marks a proud and historic moment for us all.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) June 12, 2021
Under this agreement, the world's leading democracies will commit to preventing a global pandemic from ever happening again, ensuring the devastation caused by COVID-19 is never repeated.
The Carbis Declaration will spell out a series of concrete steps, including slashing the time taken to develop and licence vaccines, treatments and diagnostics for any future disease to under 100 days, reinforcing of global surveillance networks and genomic sequencing capacity and support for reforming and strengthening the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Carbis Declaration will incorporate recommendations from a report by a group of international experts drawn from across industry, Government and scientific institutions.
The Secretary General of United Nations (U.N.) – António Guterres and Director of WHO – Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus will also be present on Day 2 of the Summit.
Before the Summit, Johnson said, “In the last year the world has developed several effective coronavirus vaccines, licensed and manufactured them at pace and is now getting them into the arms of the people who need them.”
As per the WHO, 11 billion doses are needed to vaccinate the whole world to a level of 70%, the point at which transmission of the virus could be significantly affected.
The U.K. has pledged to donate more than 100 million COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries within the next year. The U.S. President has also pledged to donate 500 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to 92 low and middle-income countries and the African Union.
