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COVID-19: G7 to provide 1 billion vaccine doses 'to world' by 2023

Britain - currently hosting G7 summit in England - to provide 100m of them



Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson discusses the foreign aid cap with a member of an engagement group during a visit to Falmouth's Maritime Museum to meet volunteers and to thank them for hosting the media centre in Falmouth, England, Thursday, June 10, 2021.
Image Credit: AP

Falmouth: G7 leaders will agree at their weekend summit to expand global coronavirus vaccine manufacturing to provide at least 1 billion doses to the world through sharing and financing schemes, hosts Britain said Thursday.

The host of the gathering of leading economies in southwest England said it would donate at least 100 million surplus doses within the next year, including five million beginning in the coming weeks.

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