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G7: Vaccine access at the heart of the Health Ministers’ meeting

G7 Health Ministers meet in Britain today and tomorrow to discuss expanding access to vaccines against COVID-19 worldwide and the means to better identify animal health risks.

One week before the G7 summit in England, the health ministers of Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and Britain will meet in Oxford is expected to “commit to combating future health threats by working together to detect animal and environmental warning signs,” according to the British Department of Health.

G7 Health Ministers intend to take a “new approach” in this direction “To prevent the spread of disease” as three out of five infections are transmitted from animals to humans, the ministry said.

As noted by AMPE, its Health Ministers G7 meet today and tomorrow amid growing demands for rich countries to do more to facilitate COVID-19 vaccination in poor countries, where vaccine doses of the disease caused by the young coronavirus arrive with the dropper.

They are also being asked to consider a report prepared by British diplomacy on the progress the G7 has made since 2015 to improve access to vaccines around the world and to help control infectious diseases.

The G7 countries have already pledged to increase their assistance to the international COVID-19 vaccine-sharing mechanism, COVAX. British Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Wednesday that more than half a billion doses of the Oxford University vaccine and AstraZeneca, created in the UK, had been delivered worldwide, mostly to poor countries.

However Demands to speed up the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are multiplying.

During a meeting of G7 finance ministers tomorrow, Friday, in London, Kristalina Georgieva, the director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is expected to present a reduced-cost plan to end the pandemic by expanding vaccination. against COVID-19.

This plan, developed in consultation with the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), does require a limited financial effort: $ 50 billion, far from, for example, $ 1,900 billions of the latest plan to stimulate the US economy.

“Globally, we are only as strong as the weakest link in the health insurance chain. “No one is safe until we are all safe,” Hancock said in a statement issued ahead of the summit.

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