<p>The prime minister will call on G7 leaders to pledge to vaccinate the world’s population against COVID-19 by the end of 2022.</p> <p><a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/boris-johnson-5853" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Boris Johnson</strong></a> is planning to use the UK’s presidency of the group to push for global <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/vaccination-8110" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>vaccination</strong></a> coverage within the next 18 months.</p> <p>When he meets fellow <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/the-g7-7603" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>G7</strong></a> leaders face-to-face on Friday – including President <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/joe-biden-7848" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Joe Biden</strong></a> for the first time since his election win – Mr Johnson will call on them to “rise to the greatest challenge of the post-war era” to stop the <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/coronavirus-8483" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>coronavirus</strong></a> pandemic, which has infected at least 172 million people and killed more than 3.7 million worldwide.</p> <div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image"> <figure class="sdc-article-image__figure"> <div class="sdc-article-image__wrapper" data-aspect-ratio="16/9"> <img class="sdc-article-image__item" loading="lazy" intrinsicsize="768x432" src="https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/768x432/skynews-boris-johnson-covid-19_5404338.jpg?20210603181151" srcset="https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/384x216/skynews-boris-johnson-covid-19_5404338.jpg?20210603181151 380w, https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/768x432/skynews-boris-johnson-covid-19_5404338.jpg?20210603181151 760w, https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/1600x900/skynews-boris-johnson-covid-19_5404338.jpg?20210603181151 1024w, https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/2048x1152/skynews-boris-johnson-covid-19_5404338.jpg?20210603181151 2048w" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw" alt="The Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Francis Crick Vaccination Centre in central London, to have his second Covid-19 Vaccination Jab. Picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street"> </div><figcaption class="sdc-article-image__caption"> <span class="sdc-article-image__visually-hidden">Image:</span><br /> <span class="sdc-article-image__caption-text">Boris Johnson, who has had both doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, wants the world to be fully jabbed by the end of 2022</span><br /> </figcaption></figure> </div> <p>Mr Johnson said: “The world is looking to us to rise to the greatest challenge of the post-war era: defeating <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/covid-19-8518" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>COVID</strong></a> and leading a global recovery driven by our shared values.</p> <p>“Vaccinating the world by the end of next year would be the single greatest feat in medical history.</p> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region " data-interscroller="true" data-format="floated-mpu" data-role="sticky-region" data-component-name="sdc-site-layout"> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__target"> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__mask"> <div class="sdc-site-layout-sticky-region__content"> <div class="sdc-site-au-wrapper "> <div class="sdc-site-au site-component-vertical-margin" data-ad-format="mpu-1" data-type="" aria-hidden="true"> <p> <span class="sdc-site-au__label-text" data-label-text="Advertisement">Advertisement</span> </p> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p>“I’m calling on my fellow G7 leaders to join us to end to this terrible pandemic and pledge we will never allow the devastation wreaked by coronavirus to happen again.”</p> <p>According to data collated by US university Johns Hopkins, some 2.076 billion vaccine doses have been administered across the world thus far.</p> <div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-related-stories" data-component-name="sdc-article-related-stories"> <div class="sdc-article-related-stories__content"> <h3 class="sdc-article-related-stories__title">More on Boris Johnson</h3> </p></div> </div> <p>But with most of the vaccines available requiring two doses for full protection, this number is not enough.</p> <p>The UK has secured access to more than 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines over the next two years, after creating a portfolio of seven different vaccines.</p> <div class="sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image"> <figure class="sdc-article-image__figure"> <div class="sdc-article-image__wrapper" data-aspect-ratio="16/9"> <img class="sdc-article-image__item" loading="lazy" intrinsicsize="768x432" src="https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/768x432/skynews-harrow-vaccine_5406102.jpg?20210605144418" srcset="https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/384x216/skynews-harrow-vaccine_5406102.jpg?20210605144418 380w, https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/768x432/skynews-harrow-vaccine_5406102.jpg?20210605144418 760w, https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/1600x900/skynews-harrow-vaccine_5406102.jpg?20210605144418 1024w, https://e3.365dm.com/21/06/2048x1152/skynews-harrow-vaccine_5406102.jpg?20210605144418 2048w" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 1024px, 100vw" alt="People queuing to go into Belmont Health Centre in Harrow which is offering a first dose of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to anyone aged over 18 on Saturday and Sunday who is living or working in Harrow. Picture date: Saturday June 5, 2021."> </div><figcaption class="sdc-article-image__caption"> <span class="sdc-article-image__visually-hidden">Image:</span><br /> <span class="sdc-article-image__caption-text">Some UK vaccination centres have been able to offer jabs to everyone over 18</span><br /> </figcaption></figure> </div> <p>Some 67 million doses have been administered already, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/uk-records-5-765-more-covid-cases-down-on-yesterdays-two-month-high-but-up-on-last-week-12325595" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>with more than 27 million people fully vaccinated</strong></a>, and many parts of the UK are now vaccinating people in their 20s.</p> <p>The prospect of vaccinating children has also been raised this past week after the medicines regulator <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-medicines-regulator-approves-pfizer-jab-for-12-to-15-year-olds-12324933" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>approved the Pfizer jab for 12 to 15-year-olds</strong></a>.</p> <p>Meanwhile, many poorer countries have not even managed to vaccinate health workers – who are among those most at risk – due to lack of funds, inadequate infrastructure or, most often, lack of supply.</p> <p>Vaccinating the whole world is not just important morally – supply chains and global economic activity cannot fully resume until all countries can open up.</p> <p>And new variants are more likely to occur if large groups of people are unvaccinated, possibly rendering our current vaccines less effective.</p> <p>In February, Mr Johnson said the <strong><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-pm-pledges-uks-surplus-vaccines-to-poorer-nations-as-he-calls-on-g7-to-set-100-day-target-for-new-jabs-12222233" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UK would share the majority of any surplus COVID vaccines</a></strong>.</p> <p>And on Friday, Health Secretary <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/matt-hancock-8131" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Matt 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<p>Germany, France and Italy, on the other hand, have vowed to donate at least 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines before the end of the year.</p> <p>Downing Street has held up its £548m contribution to Covax, the United Nations-backed scheme aiming to make vaccines available to low and middle income countries.</p> <p>But this only fixes half of the problem: you cannot buy vaccines if there are none available – no matter how much money you have.</p> <p>British taxpayers also made a major contribution to the production of the <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-9152" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine</strong></a>, which – because it is being sold at cost – is the main vaccine being used in poor and middle income countries.</p> <p>Number 10 says almost one in three shots given around the world have been the Oxford vaccine and it makes up 96% of the 80 million shots administered by Covax.</p> <p>The G7 leaders will meet in Cornwall’s Carbis Bay on Friday for three days of meetings discussing issues such as the global recovery from the pandemic.</p> <p>They will be joined by experts including the UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, philanthropist Melinda French Gates, and environmentalist Sir David Attenborough.</p> <p>On Saturday, they will be joined either in person or virtually by the leaders of Australia, South Africa, South Korea and India for discussions on health and climate change.</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/news/2021/06/05/pm-to-call-on-g7-to-vaccinate-world-against-covid-by-end-of-next-year/">PM to call on G7 to vaccinate world against COVID by end of next year</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/news">Patabook News </a>.</p>
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