The G7 will announce this Saturday an action plan to face future pandemics in the first 100 days after having addressed global recovery this Friday, on the first day of their appointment.
The leaders of the group – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States – are meeting in Cornwall, and on their second day, they will present the ‘Carbis Bay Declaration’, in which they will collect a series of measures that will have the objective of preventing future pandemics after the impact of COVID-19.
“In the last year the world has developed several effective vaccines against coronavirus, has licensed and manufactured them at a good pace and is now putting them in the hands of the people who need them (…), but to really defeat the coronavirus and recover we have We have to prevent a pandemic like this from happening again ”, said the British Prime Minister and host of the G7 summit, Boris Johnson.
He also expressed his “pride” because “for the first time” this Friday “the world’s main democracies have come together” to ensure that never again a health situation catches them “off guard.”
In the first session of the summit, Johnson has indicated that they must make sure “not to repeat some of the mistakes” that have been committed “in the course of the last 18 months or so”. “I think there is the potential to generate many, many millions of highly paid and skilled jobs,” he added.
Thus, the declaration that will be established this Saturday will include a plan with a series of concrete measures. Among them, reducing the time required for the development and authorization of vaccines and treatments for any disease in less than 100 days, strengthening global surveillance networks and genomic sequencing capacity, and support to reform and strengthen the World Health Organization (WHO), reports BBC.
15% global tax
On the other hand, in the context of the summit, the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan , has indicated that the G7 leaders will “support” the proposal of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, to “establish at least a minimum global tax of 15% ”.
“The United States is bringing the world together so that large multinational corporations pay their fair share so that we can invest in our middle class at home,” he said.
