According to the Associated Press (AP), the Group of Seven nations, which are currently meeting at UK, are set to commit to sharing at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with the world, with half coming from the U.S. and 100 million from the U.K.. The G-7 includes US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

President Biden had previously announced that US is going to buy 500 Millions of vaccines to be sent to World starting with 92 poorest countries.

According to AP, the British prime minister’s office has that the first 5 million U.K. doses would be shared in the coming weeks, with the remainder coming over the next year.

At the G7 Summit I hope my fellow leaders will make similar pledges so that, together, we can vaccinate the world by the end of next year and build back better from coronavirus.

Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister (source: Associated Press)

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We’re going to help lead the world out of this pandemic working alongside our global partners.

President Biden (source: Associated Press)

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I think the European Union needs to have at least the same level of ambition as the United States. It’s almost more important to say how many (doses) we deliver the next month than making promises to be fulfilled in 18 months from now.

French President Emmanuel Macron (source: Associated Press)

“The G-7 leaders have faced mounting pressure to outline their global vaccine sharing plans, especially as inequities in supply around the world have become more pronounced. In the U.S., there is a large vaccine stockpile and the demand for shots has dropped precipitously in recent weeks,” writes the AP.

• G-7 nations expected to pledge 1B vaccine doses for world
• G-7 leaders to commit to sharing 1 billion vaccines to the world

The AP writes that the U.S. was buying 500 million Pfizer doses and ‘donate for distribution through the global COVAX alliance to 92 lower-income countries and the African Union, bringing the first steady supply of mRNA vaccine to the countries that need it most’.

In his announcement, Pres. Biden is quoted saying “the Detroit-area workers who 80 years ago built tanks and planes ‘that helped defeat the threat of global fascism in World War II’. They built what became known as the arsenal of democracy. Now a new generation of American men and women, working with today’s latest technology, is going to build a new arsenal to defeat the current enemy of world peace, health and stability: COVID-19.”