G7 LEADERS are poised to pledge one billion vaccines to the world in an effort to overcome the coronavirus pandemic by the end of 2022.
A leaked communique suggests they will use this weekend’s summit in Britain to call for a new study into the origins of the virus.
World leaders are under pressure to redress an imbalance in global vaccine supplies condemned by human rights groups and the World Health Organisation.
The US said it would buy 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses to be distributed among 92 poorer countries by the middle of 2022.
European leaders will join a G7 pledge to deliver one billion vaccines by the end of next year, according to the draft communique seen by Bloomberg.
But a divided Europe was under pressure to go farther by agreeing to a waiver of intellectual property rights on vaccines.
The proposal gathered momentum after the European Parliament voted
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