Friday briefing: G7 shamed over lack of vaccine for others Warren Murray
Top story: Russia, China outrun western vaccine diplomacy
Good morning and welcome to Friday. Warren Murray here to zero in on the stories that count.
Western leaders are scrambling to fend off accusations that they have failed to address the lack of vaccines for poorer countries, as the UK hosts the G7 summit today. Boris Johnson is to pledge that Britain will donate surplus doses to the cause and cut to 100 days the time it takes to produce new jabs. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has proposed that 5% of vaccines from G7 nations be sent to poorer countries, especially in Africa. Both Russia and China are threatening to win an escalating vaccine diplomacy war by sending their vaccines direct to Africa, while the G7 club of wealthy nations continues to pile up surpluses in case stocks run out. Serbia has received almost 1m Covid-19 vaccine doses from China’s state-owned Sinopharm a
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