G7 leaders will commit on Saturday to a series of joint actions to try to prevent another global pandemic that creates the human and economic devastation wrought by coronavirus. The declaration follows a commitment by the leaders to donate 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses to other countries. “But to truly defeat coronavirus and recover, we need to prevent a pandemic like this from ever happening again. They will be joined on Saturday by the leaders of South Korea, Australia and South Africa and remotely by India’s prime minister Narendra Modi. Downing Street said Brexit minister David Frost was with the prime minister in Cornwall but declined to say which meetings he would attend.

Source: The Irish Times June 11, 2021 21:30 UTC