Australia will provide 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific as leaders at the G7-plus summit in the United Kingdom make a bid to distribute jabs more equally across the globe. He said Australia's contribution will feed into an effort led by Mr Johnson to vaccinate the world. 'Sharing vaccines now is essential for ending the acute phase of the pandemic,' Tedros said, urging G7 countries to do more to battle inequality in accessing coronavirus vaccines. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will only attend the G7 virtually due to the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in his country. 'We've met on so many occasions over the past 18 months over screens,' Mr Morrison said on Friday.

Source: Daily Mail June 11, 2021 23:13 UTC