The UK urges a commitment to vaccinate the world by the end of 2022

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will use the summit of the Group of Seven Wealthy Democracies next week to urge world leaders to commit to vaccinating the world’s population by the end of 2022.

Johnson is expected to emphasize the importance of a global vaccination drive when meeting with other colleagues world leaders on Friday in Cornwall, on the south-west coast of England, for the first G-7 face-to-face summit since the pandemic hit.

“The world is looking to meet the biggest post-war challenge: defeating COVID and leading a global recovery driven by our shared values,” he said in a statement on Sunday. “Vaccinating the world by the end of next year would be the big goal of medical history. “

U.S. President Joe Boden and leaders from Canada, France, Italy and Japan will arrive in Cornwall starting Friday for three days of talks focused on the global recovery from the pandemic.

The British government pledged in February to donate most of the country’s surplus supply of vaccines to COVAX, the UN-backed program it aims to provide poorer countries with punctures.

But the UK has not yet calculated how many doses it will give. The country, with a population of about 70 million people, has ordered about 400 million doses of vaccines. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the UK does not have any overdoses at the moment and that “we are just putting them in our arms as soon as possible”.

The Sunday Times reported that Johnson will announce at the summit that the UK will pledge to donate more than £ 2bn this year, with other donations in 2022.

The United States has said it plans to share 80 million doses of its surplus vaccine globally by the end of June, mostly through COVAX.

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