UK PM wants world vaccinated by end of 2022 for global lockdown escape
Sun, 6th Jun 2021 10:04
(Alliance News) - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge G7 leaders to defeat Covid by vaccinating the world by the end of next year, as he pushes for a global watch system to catch new variants before they can plunge countries back into lockdown.
Johnson is set to stress the importance of the global vaccine programme when he meets with world leaders – including US President Joe Biden – on Friday in Cornwall for the first face-to-face G7 meeting since the pandemic hit.
Setting the scene before their gathering in Carbis Bay on June 11-13, Johnson is calling on his counterparts to rise to the greatest challenge of the post-war era by vaccinating the world by the end of next year , in a move he said would be the single greatest feat in medical history.