Boris Johnson inaugurated the first face-to-face G7 summit during the pandemic: “We must rebuild better”

The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, noted this Friday on first face-to-face G7 summit in almost two years as “huge opportunity” to jumpstart global recovery from coronavirus pandemic.

Opening the leaders’ meeting in Carbis Bay, southwest England, the summit host assured that achieving a more equitable future for the world is essential. “We have to make sure that as we recover, we build back better. We have a huge opportunity to do this as a G7 ”, he claimed.

“We need to learn the lessons of the pandemic, be careful not to repeat some of the mistakes we have certainly made over the past 18 months.”Johnson told the leaders of the world’s most developed democracies.

He added that countries also cannot afford make the same mistakes as in the great recession of 2008, “When the recovery was not uniform in all parts of the company.”

The G7 meeting brings together the heads of state and government of Germany, Canada, United States, France, Italy, Japan and United Kingdom.

At the center of the talks will be the recovery of a global economy crippled by the pandemic and a more equitable distribution of covid-19 vaccines by rich countries.

In the face of growing calls for solidarity, Johnson has urged his counterparts to pledge to “vaccinate the world” by the end of next year, “because no one can be well protected until everyone is.”

Segun Downing Street, Leaders will agree to provide “at least 1 billion doses” by sharing or financing them and by increasing production capacities, with the aim of “ending the pandemic in 2022”.

The United States has already pledged to donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine to 92 underprivileged countries. The UK will distribute 100 million excess doses, mainly through the Covax program.

According to the agency Bloomberg, the G7 will also call for a new investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origin of the coronavirus.

(With information from EFE, Reuters and AFP)

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