Leaders of the major industrial nations have pledged one billion COVID vaccine doses to poor countries as a "big step towards vaccinating the world", Boris Johnson has said.
At the end of the G7 summit in Cornwall, the PM said countries were rejecting "nationalistic approaches". There was a pledge to wipe out their contribution to climate change.
After the first meeting of world leaders in two years, Johnson said that the world was looking to them to reject some of the selfish, nationalistic approaches that marred the initial global response to the pandemic and to channel all their diplomatic, economic and scientific might to defeating COVID for good.
He also said the G7 leaders had pledged to supply the vaccines to poor countries either directly or through the World Health Organization's Covax scheme, including 100 million from the UK.