In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres took to his official Twitter handle to urge people across the globe to come together in the fight against the deadly virus. He reminded people that the world is at a "pivotal moment" in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and by donating vaccine doses, the pandemic could end sooner, republicworld.com reports.
Highlighting the new global understanding of "we are in this together", he stated how the entire world has come to face the same enemy - COVID-19, after 75 long years.
A country cannot exist in a vacuum, neither in good times nor during a global pandemic. Cementing the notion and encouraging the world to come together in this fight, Antonio Guterres stated, “To avoid ending up back at square one, we need a quantum leap in global cooperation. Only together will we beat this virus.”
G7 leaders to expand the global COVID vaccination drive by donating a minimum of one billion doses to poorer countries. The UK is hosting this year’s G7 conference in Cornwall from Friday, June 11 to Sunday, June 13.
The meeting is expected to see the leaders of the world’s “most advanced economies” in attendance. Britain itself has announced to give 100 million surplus doses before the end of 2022, including five million in the coming weeks.
The US President reaffirmed his commitment to leading an international and coordinated vaccination effort, announcing he will donate 80 million COVID-19 vaccines – the 60 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines previously announced and an additional 20 million doses by the end of June.
"We need more than that," he said of the G7 plan. "We need a global vaccination plan. We need to act with a logic, with a sense of urgency, and with the priorities of a war economy, and we are still far from getting that," Guterres stated.
