Billions have just been poured out by the richest countries on the planet to finance the global fight against Covid, and in particular Covax, this UN initiative intended to ensure equitable access to vaccines for the poorest.
Two billion dollars by the United States and the pledge of 2 billion more by 2022, 1.5 billion more by Germany, 500 million coming from the European Union.
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The efforts of the members of the G7 gathered on Friday by videoconference, and in particular those of Joe Biden who was attending for the very first time since arriving at the White House, are important and undoubtedly very useful.
But the urgency is above all access to vaccines, for the time being so difficult to find on the market, due to the production problems encountered by pharmaceutical groups.
Hence the tensions observed all over the world and the bitter experience of Europeans in recent weeks.
In this context of shortage,
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