DAnd according to a statement from their office, the vaccines will be distributed at the initiative of COVAX, coordinated by the Global Alliance for Vaccines (Gavi) and the World Health Organization (WHO), specifically to provide middle-income vaccines Countries and low yield.
The UK has a contract to order 457 million doses from eight different suppliers, although only three vaccines have received regulatory approval for use in the country and two have begun to be administered from Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
The statement said that the British surplus is not expected to be identified by the end of the year, depending on whether vaccine production continues smoothly or whether new vaccines or boosters are needed against new variants of the virus.
Boris Johnson will confirm this commitment during the summit, organized under the British Presidency this year by a group of seven countries formed by the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, together with the European Union (HUH ).
The summit will be the first high-level international meeting with US President Joe Biden, which was sworn in in January, and will be attended by leaders of all member states, as well as European Commission presidents, Ursula von der. Layan, and the European Council, Charles Mitchell.
The British Prime Minister will also take advantage of the summit to join the challenge of reducing the time for the Alliance to develop new vaccines for innovation in Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI).
Vaccines against Kovid-19 were developed in about 300 days, but experts believe it is possible to reduce this time further to develop new vaccines for emerging diseases, and Boris Johnson, his chief scientific advisor Patrick Asked Valence to develop contacts for international efforts in this regard. .
“The development of a viable coronavirus vaccine offers the prospect of a return to normalcy, but we shouldn’t sleep on our laurels. As leaders of the G7, we should say today: never again. Taking advantage of our collective creativity , We can guarantee. Johnson said before the meeting that we have vaccines, treatments and tests to fight future health hazards.
According to a report made by the French agency AFP, the Kovid-19 pandemic caused at least 2,430,693 deaths worldwide, more than 109.8 million cases of infection.
According to the recent bulletin of the Directorate General for Health, 15,754 out of 79,298 people have died in Portugal.
The disease has been detected by a new coronavirus in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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