Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021

Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021

GENEVA “” A senior UN official welcomed on Sunday, the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized nations' commitment to immediately share at least 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, supporting global access and helping to end the acute phase of the pandemic. "Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines represents the clearest pathway out of this pandemic for all of us “” children included, and commitments announced by G7 members...are an important step in this direction“, Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, said in a statement. Building on the momentum of the G20 Global Health Summit and the Gavi COVAX AMC Summit, in a landmark agreement at the G7 Summit “” under way in Cornwall, United Kingdom “” the global leaders made the pledge, with the aim of delivering at least half by the end of 2021 Secretary-General António Guterres had also said that despite "unequal and very unfair“ access to inoculations, "it is in the interest of everybody that everybody gets vaccinated sooner rather than later“. The G-7 leaders also reaffirmed their support for the UN-led equitable vaccine distribution initiative COVAX, calling it "the primary route for providing vaccines to the poorest countries“. Prompt action, please The