G7 summit: Leaders due to declare global pandemic prevention plan

G7 summit: Leaders due to declare global pandemic prevention plan

After the first face-to-face contacts and in-person socialising on Friday, G7 leaders enter the nitty-gritty of global issues today, focusing in particular on how to prevent future pandemics and defend multilateralism.

As well as promising more vaccines for the world's developing countries, leaders are expected to issue a declaration on avoiding future repeats of the coronavirus pandemic which has already caused 3.7 million deaths around the world.