Before the online G7 summit, human rights organizations are calling for the corona vaccine to be distributed fairly.
US President Joe Biden will be attending two international meetings tomorrow.
Human rights organizations call before the
G7 summit
and the
Munich Security Conference
, a fair distribution of
Corona
-
vaccines
.
Joe Biden
* will
take part in an international meeting for the first time
as the new President of the
USA
*.
Commitments to finance
vaccines
* in the fight against the
Corona
* pandemic are also expected.
Munich - On the occasion of the online meeting of the seven major economic
powers
(
G7
), development organizations have called for a global vaccination plan and greater commitment in the fight against the
coronavirus
.
Poorer countries need more help.
The
G7
round that will be held
on Friday
, in which the new US President
Joe Biden
will also take part
for the first time
, is also
expected to make
financial commitments to fight the pandemic and distribute
vaccines
.
This year, the federal government is making available 1.5 billion euros for the campaign of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other actors with the ACT Accelerator (Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator).
An important part is the Covax initiative, in which the development and distribution of
corona vaccines are
bundled in order to give all countries fair access.
Organization One criticizes G7 talks: Rich nations secure too much corona vaccine
Organization One criticized that rich nations were gaining access to many more
vaccines
than they needed.
Access is made more difficult for poorer countries.
If rich countries continued to have a monopoly on the first two billion vaccine doses, there could be twice as many
corona
deaths as if the vaccine were shared fairly, according to the organization on its website.
One called for
the
G7
countries to "plan carefully" to improve the global distribution of
vaccines
.
The transfer must begin before potential donor countries start accumulating excess vaccine doses.
"As long as the virus remains uncontrolled somewhere on the planet, it will continue to mutate, cross borders and wreak havoc in society and the global economy," said an analysis by the organization.
Corona pandemic and vaccine in focus: G7 discussion and online security conference
The G7 video call will take place tomorrow, Friday (February 19, 2021) under the chairmanship of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The official
G7
summit is due to take place in Cornwall, UK in June.
The virtual G7 summit is the first international meeting attended by the new US President
Joe Biden
.
Much hope is placed in it for an improvement in transatlantic relations.
In
addition to Germany, the USA and Great Britain,
the
G7 countries also
include France, Italy, Canada and Japan.
On the same day there will also be an online version of the
Munich Security Conference
, which has been postponed in its usual form.
Here, too, it should be about transatlantic relations, but other topics are climate protection and also the corona pandemic.
In addition to the new US President
Joe Biden
, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), UN Secretary General António Guterres and Bill Gates will speak at the conference.
The meeting can be followed online in the live stream.
António Guterres: "Distribution of the corona vaccines unfair"
Even UN Secretary General António Guterres had criticized this week that the distribution of
Corona
-
vaccines
is totally "unbalanced and unfair".
Because so far ten countries have vaccinated three quarters of all available vaccine doses, he criticized.
130 other countries, however, had not yet received a single dose.
He called for a global vaccination plan that would involve researchers, manufacturers and donors.
(Friederike Meier / dpa)
* fr.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital central editorial team.