How Do World Leaders Plan to Combat COVID at the G7 Summit in 2021?

Amid the COVID pandemic's second wave, the summit saw a mix of actual and virtual participation. The G7 summit includes the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan. This year, the United Kingdom has the presidency, and India, along with Australia, South Korea, and South Africa, has been invited.

The United Kingdom has identified four key issues that will be covered in depth at the summit: Global recovery from the coronavirus while increasing resistance to future pandemics; supporting future wealth by embracing free and fair trade; combating climate change and protecting the planet's biodiversity, and championing shared values and open societies.

Leaders from throughout the world debated how to speed up the development and licensing of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics. India and South Africa's attempts to waive intellectual property protection for COVID-19 vaccines and goods were backed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The Group of Seven wealthy nations, according to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have pledged over 1 billion coronavirus vaccine doses for poorer countries. Mr. Johnson said the doses would be delivered both directly and through the worldwide COVAX program at the end of a G7 leaders' conference in southwest England on Sunday.

On Saturday, June 12th, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led a G7 conversation on China, calling on leaders to come up with a unified strategy to the difficulties faced by the People's Republic, according to a source. The G7 leaders came to a wide agreement on the need to have a coordinated response to China.

We have to deal with this pandemic and COVID-19. We have to face a lot of challenges, a lot of crises, climate change, and for all these issues, what we need is cooperation, and I think it's great to have a US President part of the club and very willing to cooperate," French President Emmanuel Macron said in G7 summit.

On Saturday, June 12th, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated digitally in the Group of Seven (G7) outreach sessions, where he stated that the summit should send out a message of "One Earth, One Health" to the entire globe.He also thanked the G7 and other visiting countries for their assistance during the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in India.

According to ANI, PM Modi also asked the G7's support for India and South Africa's petition at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) waiver on COVID-related technologies.