The Covid-19 pandemic will haunt the world until 2024 unless the G7 focuses on increasing vaccine production, in part by facilitating it in Africa, the French foreign minister has said. “If we continue at this pace … then there will not be global immunity until 2024,” he said. “Are we going to wait until 2024 keeping on with our masks, our tests, our constraints and our fears? “There will be no immunity against Covid-19 unless it is global immunity. Covax is a huge initiative to create 2bn doses, including 1.3bn to be used this year“The G7 leaders need to go further.

Source: The Guardian May 06, 2021 04:00 UTC