The agreement involves vaccinating 40% of the world population this year and 70% by 2022.
The G20 heads of state or government pledged today in Rome to vaccinate at least 70% of the world’s population in 2022, by distributing the drug against the coronavirus to poor countries, sources from the summit confirmed.
The different Ministers of Health and Economy of the forum of the twenty powers of the planet already advanced yesterday the intention to achieve this objective, proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The agreement involves vaccinating 40% of the world population this year and 70% by 2022, as illustrated at the opening of the summit in Rome by the host prime minister, the Italian Mario Draghi.
This to “flatly achieve the objective of a true and equitable recovery” and was agreed upon by all the leaders gathered at the summit, the sources added.
In its first day of debates, the G20 held a panel entitled “Global economy and health” to address solutions to the health crisis caused by the coronavirus in the last year and a half, an issue faced by all leaders in their speeches.
Furthermore, “many” of them defended the need to maintain a “multilateral” policy in search of these solutions.
To achieve the objective, in addition to donating doses to developing countries, the need to increase productive capacity and transfer technologies in areas such as Africa was also discussed, also to prevent future health crises.
Italy, with the rotating presidency of the G20 this year, proposed to strengthen the world bodies on Health to “make up for the insufficient coordination between health and financial authorities evidenced during the pandemic.” (I)
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