With the Covid pandemic continuing to impact large parts of the world, Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi at the G7 outreach summit gave the mantra of "One Earth, One Health" & sought support on Covid vaccine patent waiver. India, along with South Africa, South Korea and Australia, have been invited by UK for the G7 Outreach summit taking place in Cornwall. PM Modi joined the summit virtually with each leader having a screen through which PM was connected digitally. PM Modi during his address asked G7 countries to support India South Africa's proposal at WTO for Covid vaccine patent waiver. India was first invited for G7 in 2003, when the then Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee had gone to France for the summit.

Source: dna June 12, 2021 17:37 UTC