They will pledge all their resources to ensure a global pandemic like Covid-19 is never repeated.
The G7 leaders will issue the Carbis Bay Declaration after a special session on Saturday, which will set out a plan to try to prevent any repeat of the human and economic devastation wreaked by Covid-19.
"But to truly defeat coronavirus and recover we need to prevent a pandemic like this from ever happening again. That means learning lessons from the last 18 months and doing it differently next time around."The G7 leaders attended a reception at the Eden Project on Friday evening Dr Tedros stressed that "the world needs a stronger global surveillance system to detect new epidemic and pandemic risks".Mr Johnson has pledged the UK will donate more than 100 million Covid vaccines to poorer countries within the next year, while Mr Biden promised 500 million doses of Pfizer vaccines to 92 low and middle-income countries and the African Union.
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