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The G7 summit to unveil measures to overcome pandemic
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LONDON, 12 June, 2021 (TON): On Saturday, the G7 leaders are expected to disclose the anti-pandemic action plan to overcome the destruction caused by the pandemic crisis.
On Friday, the three-day G7 summit kicked off at the Cornish seaside resort of Carbis Bay where Carbis Bay Declaration will be issued, the media reported.
The Declaration will set out a plan to try to prevent any repeat of the human and economic devastation wreaked by Covid-19.
Some of the measures under the Declaration are reducing the time taken to develop and license vaccines, treatments and diagnostics for any future disease to less than 100 days.
Besides, it will reinforce global surveillance networks and genomic sequencing capacity; and the support for reforming and strengthening the World Health Organization (WHO).
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus will also take part in Saturday’s session.
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