G-7 leaders pledge 1b COVID vaccine doses for poorer nations

Leaders of the major industrial nations have pledged over one billion doses of COVID vaccine as a “big step towards vaccinating the world”, Boris Johnson has said.

At the end of the G7 summit in Cornwall, the Prime Minister said countries were rejecting “nationalistic approaches,” and that vaccinating the world would demonstrate the benefits of the G7’s democratic values

It would be the “greatest medical feat in history,” he said.