G7 leaders are expected to agree to expand Covid vaccine manufacturing to provide at least one billion doses globally through sharing schemes. Macron also called for G7 leaders meeting on Friday to back a goal of getting 60 percent of Africans vaccinated by the end of March 2022. He said the figure was more ambitious than that provided for by the Covax jab scheme for poorer nations, which aims to immunise 20 percent of Africansby the end of 2021. “I think it’s a good objective and it is the one we will endorse at the G7,” Macron told journalists. EU members have agreed to donate least 100 million doses by the end of 2021, with France and Germany each committing to providing 30 million shots.

Source: The Local June 11, 2021 10:30 UTC