UK urges commitment to vaccinate world by 2022

Sky News.

London, June 6: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the Group of Seven wealthy democracies’ summit next week to urge world leaders to commit to vaccinating the global population by the end of 2022.

Johnson is expected to stress the importance of a global vaccination drive when he meets with fellow world leaders on Friday in Cornwall, on the coast of southwestern England, for the first face-to-face G-7

The other three tests cover the vaccine deployment programme continuing successfully; evidence showing vaccines are sufficiently effective in reducing hospitalisations and deaths in those vaccinated; and infection rates do not risk a surge in hospitalisations, which would put unsustainable pressure on the NHS.

Three out of the four tests are currently being met, with the risk assessment from the Delta VOC the only unknown factor ahead of June 14 when the government is expected to confirm whether the unlocking roadmap will stay on track for June 21. The government has indicated that the wearing of face coverings and working from home measures could continue. summit since the pandemic hit. “The world is looking to us to rise to the greatest challenge of the postwar era: Defeating Covid and leading a global recovery driven by our shared values,” he said in a statement Sunday.

“Vaccinating the world by the end of next year would be the single greatest feat in medical history.” US President Joe Biden and leaders of Canada, France, Italy and Japan will arrive in Cornwall from Friday for three days of talks focusing on the global recovery from the pandemic. Britain’s government pledged in February to give most of the country’s surplus vaccine supply to COVAX, the United Nations-backed programme aiming to supply poorer countries with jabs.

But the UK has not yet put a figure on how many doses it will donate. The country has ordered some 400 million doses of vaccines.