China News Service, June 11, report comprehensively, on the 10th local time, the host of the Group of Seven (G7) summit, the United Kingdom, stated that G7 leaders will agree to expand the production of the global new crown vaccine at the weekend summit and will share and finance It is planned to provide at least 1 billion doses of vaccine to the world.
The picture shows a medical staff in Italy doing the new crown vaccination work.
According to reports, the UK has also pledged to donate at least 100 million doses of remaining vaccine in the coming year, including 5 million doses of vaccine from the next few weeks.
The US Biden government also pledged on June 9 to donate 500 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to the "New Coronary Pneumonia Vaccine Implementation Plan" (COVAX).
EU members agreed to donate at least 100 million doses of vaccine by the end of 2021.
Previously, more and more people called for rich countries to step up efforts to share the new crown vaccine with less developed countries.
Some charities have warned that the current situation is leading to a "vaccine gap."
According to reports, the UK has ordered more than 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
However, according to Reuters, for the vaccine sharing plan announced by the British government, the non-governmental development and relief organization Oxfam criticized that the plan was nothing but a "drop in the bucket" relative to the huge gap in global vaccine demand. Because nearly 4 billion people worldwide rely on the COVAX program.
Wallace, the head of ONE, a global anti-poverty organization, warned, “We are competing with the virus. The longer it takes the lead, the more damage the world will be damaged by new and more dangerous mutant viruses.” A charity said, Allowing low-income countries to deal with the new crown epidemic alone may further mutate the virus and escape vaccine protection.