G-7 vows 'equitable' world vaccine access, but details scant
Britian's Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts a virtual meeting of G7 world leaders, from within the Cabinet Room at Downing Street in London, Friday Feb. 19, 2021. (Geoff Pugh/Pool via AP)LONDON โ Leaders of the Group of Seven economic powers promised Friday to immunize the worldโs neediest people against the coronavirus by giving money, and precious vaccine doses, to a U.N.-backed vaccine distribution effort. G-7 leaders are eager to avoid looking greedy โ and don't want to cede the terrain of vaccine diplomacy to less democratic but faster-moving countries such as China and Russia. The AU previously secured 270 million doses from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson for the continent of 1.3 billion people. The G-7 meeting โ and a speech by Biden at the Munich Security Conference on Friday โ comes the day the United States officially rejoins the Paris climate agreement, the largest international effort to curb global warming.