The G7 will donate 1 billion Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries

There London reported, “World leaders to announce they will provide at least 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine, share and fund themThey must also “establish a plan to expand vaccine production to achieve this goal.”

“By vaccinating more people around the world, we will not only help stop the coronavirus pandemic, but we will also reduce the risk to people in the UK” by “reducing the threat posed by vaccine-resistant variants found in major epidemic areas, “he added.

For its part, London will donate 100 million remaining doses from various laboratories thanks to the advancement of its vaccination program, which has already administered nearly 70 million injections.

Five million doses will be delivered before September and the rest until 2022, mainly through the international Covax program.

Previously, the United States had already pledged to provide 500 million Pfizer / BioNTech vaccines, including 200 million this year, and French President Emmanuel Macron asked pharmaceutical companies to donate 10% of the doses sold to underprivileged countries.

The British presidency of the G7 also wants to ask large laboratories to provide vaccines at cost price throughout the pandemic, like AstraZeneca / Oxford.

In May, Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson pledged to deliver 3.5 billion doses at cost or discount to the poorest countries in 2021 and 2022, including 1.3 billion this year.