Shamed, perhaps, by last month’s feral blast by World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus over the unequal allocation of COVID-19 vaccinations among rich and poor countries, the leaders of the Group of Seven global economic powerhouses have undertaken to move to immunise the world’s neediest people against the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic by contributing both finances and vaccine doses to a United Nations-backed vaccine distribution effort aimed at redressing what is now accepted as an unacceptable imbalance in the global distribution of the vaccines.
The decision appears to have been reached at a virtual meeting of the leaders of the so-called Group of Seven nations prior to an online parley of the European Council on Friday February 19.